Building Maintenance Workers' Union (Sweden) Explained

Fastighets
Location Country:	Sweden
Affiliation:	LO, UNI
Members:	26,324(2018)^[1]
Full Name:	Building Maintenance Workers' Union
Native Name:	Fastighetsanställdas Förbund
Native Name Lang:	sv
Headquarters:	Stockholm
Key People:	Magnus Pettersson, president
Website:	www.fastighets.se

The Building Maintenance Workers' Union (Faf) is a trade union in Sweden.

The union was founded on 26 April 1936 at a conference in Stockholm. It affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in 1938. It absorbed the Stockholm Union of Cleaners in 1948, and rose to a peak membership of 44,302 in 1998. By 2019, however, its membership had fallen to 25,634.^[2]

Faf represents building maintenance workers employed by private cleaners in cleaning companies, window cleaners and employees of Folkets Hus (Labour Movement Community Centres).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kjellberg . Anders . The Membership Development of Swedish Trade Unions and Union Confederations Since the End of the Nineteenth Century . Lund University . 7 October 2019 . 145 . PDF . 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191007092449/https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/files/68957361/The_Membership_Development_of_Swedish_Trade_Unions_and_Union_Confederations_Since_the_End_of_the_Nineteenth_Century.pdf . 7 October 2019 . dead .
2. Book: Kjellberg . Anders . The Membership Development of Swedish Trade Unions and Union Confederations Since the End of the Nineteenth Century . 2017 . Lund University . 9172673109 . 151 - 153.