Norwegian Transport Workers' Union

Norwegian Transport Workers' Union (Norwegian:Norsk Transportarbeiderforbund, NTF) was a Norwegian trade union which was established on 2 April 1896. The union organised workers in logistics and private goods and passenger transport. The main areas for the union were drivers plus workshop and maintenance personnel in the bus companies, warehouses and terminal workers, drivers in forwarding and wholesale industry, mailroom employees and delivering personnel in newspaper companies, taxi drivers, employees in the environmental industry (waste disposal and recycling), freight drivers (long and local transport of goods ) and stevedores workers in the ports.

Norwegian Transport Workers’ Union
Norsk Transportarbeiderforbund

Full name	Norwegian Transport Workers' Union
Native name	Norsk Transportarbeiderforbund, NTF
Founded	1896
Date dissolved	May 2019
Merged into	United Federation of Trade Unions
Members	20,000+
Affiliation	LO, ITF
Key people	Roger Hansen, president
Office location	Oslo, Norway
Country	Norway
Website	www.transportarbeider.no

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 unions' leader was Roger Hansen.

In 2019, the union merged into the United Federation of Trade Unions.[1]

References

1. "Norsk Transportarbeiderforbund". Store Norske Leksikon. Retrieved 6 November 2020.

• ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.

External links

• NTF website in English