Finnish Food Workers' Union

Trade union of Finland

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The Finnish Food Workers' Union (Finnish: Suomen Elintarviketyöläisten Liitto, SEL) is a trade union representing workers in the food industry in Finland.

The Finnish Food and Drink Workers' Union was established in 1905, but banned in 1930. As a temporary measure, the new Finnish Federation of Trade Unions (SEK) admitted food workers to the Finnish General Workers' Union, but in December 1932, it split them into a new Finnish Food Workers' Union.^[1]

From 1945, the union was led by Kalle Lindholm, a member of the Finnish Communist Party. While a minority of Social Democratic Party supporters left in 1960 to join the rival General and Speciality Workers' Union, this rejoined the SEL in 1970, soon after the SEK merged into the new Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions.^[1] The SEL's membership grew rapidly, and by 1998 had reached 43,497.^[2] By 2020, this had fallen to 30,047.^[3]

Presidents

1932: Lauri Pöyhönen

1941: I. K. Björk

1941: Lauri Pöyhönen

1945: Kalle Lindholm

1949: Armas Reunamo

1951: Eero Teri

1953: Arvo Hautala

1966: Urpo Virtanen

1969: Jarl Sund

1991: Ritva Savtschenko

2006: Veli-Matti Kuntonen

External links

Official website

References

^ ^a ^b Oinonen, Teemu (1980). "Me emme pyydä, me vaadimme" Suomen Elintarviketyöläisten Liitto SEL r.y:n historia 1905–1980. SEL.
^ Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle (2000). Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 219. ISBN 0333771125.
^ "Jäsenmäärät". SAK. Retrieved 16 March 2020.