Finnish Transport Workers' Union

Finnish Transport Workers' Union
Auto- ja Kuljetusalan Työntekijäliitto
	Offices of the AKT in Helsinki
Predecessor	Automobile and Transport Workers' Union; Finnish Road Transport Union; Finnish Port Workers' Union
Founded	1970; 55 years ago
Headquarters	Helsinki, Finland
Members	45,000 (2021)
Key people	Marko Piirainen (President)
Affiliations	Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions; Nordic Transport Workers' Union; European Transport Workers' Union; International Transport Workers' Federation;
Website	www.akt.fi

The Finnish Transport Workers' Union (Finnish: Auto- ja Kuljetusalan Työntekijäliitto, AKT) is a trade union representing transport workers in Finland.

The union was founded in 1970, when the Automobile and Transport Workers' Union merged with the Finnish Road Transport Union, and the Finnish Port Workers' Union. Some of these unions had been affiliated to the Finnish Federation of Trade Unions, and some to the Finnish Trade Union Federation. Soon after these two federations merged to form the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions, the transport unions also merged.^[1]^[2]

By 1998, the union had 49,849 members,^[2] and this figure has remained fairly consistent. The union is based in Helsinki, and is divided into 121 professional groups. It is a member of the Nordic Transport Workers' Union, the European Transport Workers' Union, and the International Transport Workers' Federation.^[3]

Presidents

1970–1978: Martti Veirto
1978–1994: Risto Kuisma [fi]
1994–2001: Kauko Lehikoinen
2001–2012: Timo Räty [fi]
2012–present: Marko Piirainen [fi]

References

^ "AKT:n historia". AKT. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
^ ^a ^b Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle (2000). Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 216–219. ISBN 0333771125.
^ "Liitto". AKT. Retrieved 3 March 2020.