Funktionærernes og Tjenestemændenes Fællesrad (FTF), the second largest union in the country, organized its congress on November 14-15 in Copenhagen with the slogan "Together for Society." The confederation, which gathers over 450,000 members within 80 federations - 2/3rds public, 1/3rd private -, debated, among other things, the strategy to revive Danish unionism, undermined by the crisis, and forms of cooperation with the other two big unions - LO and AC. (Ref. 120671)
“The trade union is at a crossroads; it can become a closed interest group, exclusively taking care of its members’ conditions and advantages, or it can become a wider-scale sociopolitical stakeholders linking its members’ and society’s interests. For many years, we have been on that second path, and I think we should stick to it.” Bente Sorgenfrey, leader of the FTF confederation since 2003 – reelected at the closed Congress on November 15 in Copenhagen – opened the debate on the...
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