Confederation of Unions for Professional and Managerial Staff in Finland

Akava
Confederation of Unions for Professional and Managerial Staff in Finland
Finnish: Korkeakoulutettujen työmarkkinakeskusjärjestö Akava; Swedish: Centralorganisationen för högutbildade i Finland Akava
Founded	1950
Headquarters	Helsinki, Finland
Location	Finland;
Members	609,000 (2018)
Key people	, president
Affiliations	ITUC, NFS, ETUC, TUAC
Website	akava.fi/en/frontpage/

The Confederation of Unions for Professional and Managerial Staff in Finland^[1] (Akava) is a trade union confederation in Finland. It represents employees with university-level, professional or other high-level training. It has a membership of 609,000.

Akava is a central organization i.e. the individual members are not personally members of Akava but of a trade union which is a member of Akava. Akava has 36 member unions, the largest of which are the (OAJ), the Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers (TEK), the (UIL), the (SEFE), Union of Sales and Marketing Professionals and [fi]. The Finnish Police Union (SJPL) is also affiliated.

On 25 October 2011 Sture Fjäder was elected President of Akava for a four-year term.^[2] Akava is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation, the Council of Nordic Trade Unions, and the European Trade Union Confederation.

Akava is one of the three central organizations representing Finnish employees, the other two being the Finnish Confederation of Salaried Employees (STTK) and the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK).

References[]

^ Previously named Confederation of Unions for Academic Professionals in Finland
^ Lindén, Carl-Gustav (2013-11-07). "Sture Fjäder challenges Finland's trade union culture". Retrieved 2018-01-21.

External links[]

Official website

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[1] Previously named Confederation of Unions for Academic Professionals in Finland

[2] Lindén, Carl-Gustav (2013-11-07). "Sture Fjäder challenges Finland's trade union culture". Retrieved 2018-01-21.

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