The Swedish Transport Worker's Union (abbreviated to Transport) was created in 1897 and is today part of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation

Swedish Trade Union Confederation

The Swedish Trade Union Confederation , commonly referred to as LO, is a national trade union centre, an umbrella organisation for fifteen Swedish trade unions that organise mainly "blue-collar" workers...

 (referred to as LO in Sweden). The union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

 has today 72 000 members who work in many different fields, such as:

• Surveillance
  Surveillance
  Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people. It is sometimes done in a surreptitious manner...
  
   and security
  Security
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   (Security Guard
  Security guard
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  s, Airport security personnel, Parking attendant
  Parking attendant
  A parking enforcement officer or parking attendant and sometimes parking inspector is a member of a traffic control department or agency who issues tickets for parking violations. Where parking meters are used, they may be known as a meter attendant or a traffic warden...
  
  s)
• Dockyard workers
• Newspaper
  Newspaper
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   delivery
• Advertisement distributors
• Automobile towing
• Tire shops
• Gas stations
• Airport personnel (Loaders, mechanics)

The union's motto is: The collective agreement defends you if you defend the collective agreement!
(Kollektivavtalet försvarar dig om du försvarar kollektivavtalet!)

There are 30 local chapters around Sweden that assists members. The union leader is Per Winberg.

The headquarters are located on Olof Palmes street 29, right across from the
so called LO-castle around Norra Bantorget in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

.

The union also support an active international union cooperation and is a member of several international labor organizations:

• Nordic Transport Workers Federation (NTF)
• European Transport Workders Federation (ETF)
• Union Network International
  Union Network International
  UNI Global Union is a global union federation for skills and services, gathering national and regional trade unions. It was launched on January 1, 2000. Its more than 900 affiliated unions in 140 countries have 20 million members...
  
   (UNI)
• International Transport Workers' Federation
  International Transport Workers' Federation
  The International Transport Workers' Federation is a global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. In 2009 the ITF had 654 member organizations in 148 countries, representing a combined membership of 4.5 million workers....
  
  (ITF)