Wanja Lundby-Wedin

Wanja Lundby - Wedin Elisabeth (* October 19, 1952 in Enskede ) is a Swedish trade unionist. She is Chair of the Swedish labor union umbrella organization Landsorganisationen i Sverige ( LO) and was from 2007 to 2011 President of the European Trade Union Confederation.

Life

Wanja Lundby Wedin, is the daughter of a truck driver and a housewife. She grew up in Stockholm and was trained as a nurse. During her tenure at the central hospital in Danderyd she entered the Kommunalarbetareförbundet Svenska, the Swedish Municipal Workers' Union, a. It was confidence woman of her department and elected to the Staff Committee. It was full-time trade unionist and 1981 representative of her union in Stockholm.

1994 Wanja Lundby Wedin, was elected vice chairman of the Landsorganisationen i Sverige and in 2000 became the first woman to chair. This office of the organization founded in 1898, had until then mostly occupied by men Svenska Metallindustriarbetareförbundet, the Metalworkers' Union, or from Träarbetareförbundet. Your predecessor had been since 1994 Bertil Jonsson.

On 25 May 2007 she was elected in Seville to the Congress of the European Trade Union Confederation, the governing body of European trade unions based in Brussels whose president. The association represents about 60 million union members in 36 countries.

In early 2009, she held 24 mandates in supervisory boards, including at AMF Pension, a Swedish pension fund, which is managed by employers' organizations and trade unions. Wanja Lundby Wedin, came in March 2009 in the criticism, because they had agreed to a pension and bonus scheme in this function, which provided for the CEO, a payment of the equivalent of ten million euros, following his departure. Criticism came especially from three member unions of LO. She resigned from the Supervisory Board and announced at whether further supervisory board mandates to.

For Wanja Lundby - Wedins other offices include board positions in North Fackliga Samorganisation, the Council of Nordic Trade Unions, and the International Trade Union Confederation. She is a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden and is a member of the Board.

Wanja Lundby Wedin, is married and has two children. Her husband Lennart worked for the Svenska Metallindustriarbetareförbundet.