The Swedish Building Workers' Union (, Byggnads) is 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 ...

representing workers in the construction industry in

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

. The union was established on 1 January 1949, when the Swedish Building Wood Workers' Union merged with the labourers' section of the Swedish Factory Workers' Union, the plumbers' section of the

Swedish Metalworkers' Union The Swedish Metalworkers' Union ( often shortened in text and speech to simply ''Metall'') was a trade union in Sweden. History The union was founded in Stockholm on 21 May 1888, and had 555 members by the end of the year. Although the Swedish ...

and the construction workers' section of the Swedish Road Workers' Union. Like all its predecessors, the union affiliated to the

Swedish Trade Union Confederation The Swedish Trade Union Confederation ( ; literally "The National Organisation in Sweden"), commonly referred to as LO (), is a national trade union centre, an umbrella organisation for fourteen Swedish trade unions that organise mainly "blue-c ...

. On formation, the union had 107,373 members. In 1961, it was joined by the Swedish Bricklayers' Union, and the union's membership peaked at 156,462 in 1964. In 1970, part of the Swedish Stone Workers' Union joined, followed in 1973 by the Swedish Divers' Union, and in 2000 by the Swedish Sheet Metal Workers' Union. Despite these mergers, by 2019, the union's membership had dropped to 80,472, slightly over half its strength compared to the union's mid-1960s heydays.

Presidents

:1949: John Grevin :1952: Knut Johansson :1975: Börje Jönsson :1977: Bertil Whinberg :1991: Åke Wänman :1993: Ove Bengtsberg :2002: Hans Tilly :2012: Johan Lindholm :2024: Lars Hildingsson

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* Swedish Trade Union Confederation International Federation of Building and Wood Workers Building and construction trade unions Trade unions in Sweden 1949 establishments in Sweden Trade unions established in 1949 {{Sweden-org-stub