Municipal Workers' Union Explained

The Municipal Workers' Union (Finnish: Kunta-alan ammattiliitto, KTV) was a trade union representing local government workers in Finland.

The union as founded in 1931 as the Finnish Municipal Workers' Union, and affiliated to the Finnish Federation of Trade Unions (SAK). It resigned in 1962, but in 1969 was a founding affiliate of SAK's successor, the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions.^[1]

The union changed its name to become the "Municipal Workers' Union" in 1958, and then the Local Government Union in 1991. In 1982, the Mental Health and Disability Union merged into KTV, which became the largest union in Finland, and by 1998, it had 220,000 members.^[2]

At the start of 2006, KTV merged with the Organisation of State Employees, the State and Special Employees' Union, the Finnish Custom Officers' Union, the Finnish Prison Officers' Union, and the Coastguard Union, to form the Public and Welfare Services Union.^[3]

Presidents

1946: Juho Kivistö

1951: Reino Heinonen

1971: Jaakko Riikonen

1973: Olavi Dahl

1979: Pekka Salonen

1989: Jouni Riskilä

2001: Tuire Santamäki-Vuori

References

1. Book: Ebbinghaus . Bernhard . Visser . Jelle . Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945 . 2000 . Palgrave Macmillan . Basingstoke . 0333771125 . 218.
2. Book: Aintile . Heikki . The trade union movement in Finland . 1989 . European Trade Union Institute . 29.
3. Web site: Kuusisto . Aleksi . Finland's largest union begins operations . Eurofound . 11 March 2020.