Norwegian Transport Workers' Union ( Norwegian:''Norsk Transportarbeiderforbund'', NTF) was a Norwegian

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which was established on 2 April 1896. The union organised workers in

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and private goods and passenger transport. The main areas for the union were drivers plus workshop and maintenance personnel in the

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companies, warehouses and terminal workers, drivers in forwarding and wholesale industry, mailroom employees and delivering personnel in newspaper companies,

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s, employees in the environmental industry (waste disposal and recycling),

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drivers (long and local transport of goods ) and stevedores workers in the

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s. The union had over 20,000 members in 20 unions across Norway. The union's head office in Oslo consisted of eight officers and nine employees. NTF joined the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) in 1907 and was a member of the

International Transport Workers' Federation The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. In 2017 the ITF had 677 member organizations in 149 countries, representing a combined membership o ...

. The unions' leader was Roger Hansen. In 2019, the union merged into the

United Federation of Trade Unions The United Federation of Trade Unions () is a general union in Norway. With a membership of 174,985 it is the largest private sector union in the country. History The union is affiliated with the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). T ...

References

External links

NTF website in English
International Transport Workers' Federation Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions Trade unions established in 1896 Trade unions disestablished in 2019 {{Europe-trade-union-stub