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The Confederation of State Employees' Unions (Pardia, , ) was a
trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...
in
Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...
. The majority of Pardia's 60,000 members worked in governmental offices and institutions, while others were employed by public utility companies and enterprises. Approximately 50 percent of all Finnish state employees were members of Pardia. In 1990, the
Finnish Police Union The Finnish Police Union (, SPJL, formerly Finnish Police Federation) is a trade union representing police and associated workers in Finland. The union was founded in 1923. In 1945, it affiliated to the Finnish Federation of Trade Unions (SAK), ...
, the Union of Civil Servants, and the Union of Finnish Employees, all affiliates of the
Confederation of Salaried Employees The Confederation of Salaried Employees (, TVK) was a national trade union centre in Finland. The federation was established in 1917, as the Henkisen Työn Keskusliitto. It was refounded in 1922 and 1944, then again in 1956, as TVK. Several of its ...
(TVK), formed TVK-State, as an umbrella organisation. The TVK went bankrupt in 1992, and TVK-State was dissolved, and replaced by a new, independent, organisation, the Confederation of State Employees' Organisations (VHKL). In 1993, the unions joined the Finnish Confederation of Salaried Employees (STTK), and founded the "Confederation of State Employees' Unions". In 2000, it adopted the short name of Pardia. The Finnish Police Union disaffiliated in 2016. At the start of 2019, Pardia merged into
Trade Union Pro Trade Union Pro () is a collective force of working life and one of the largest trade unions in Finland. Pro's members are educated professionals, experts and managers in a wide array of sectors from finance to ICT and communications, service fiel ...
.


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*https://web.archive.org/web/20130530140335/http://www.pardia.fi/in_english/ Finnish Confederation of Professionals Trade unions in Finland Trade unions established in 1993 Trade unions disestablished in 2019 {{Finland-org-stub