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Norwegian Union of Forestry and Land Workers
The
Norwegian
Union
of
Forestry
and Land Workers
was a
trade union
in
Norway
, organized under
the national
Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions
.
It was founded in
1927
after the
Julussa Conflict
, and experienced the
Randsfjord Conflict
from
1930
to
1935
. In addition to forestry and
farm workers
, it organized
timber rafters
,
market gardeners
and other rural workers.
In
1988
it was merged with the
Norwegian Union of Clothing Workers
, the
Norwegian Union of Iron and Metalworkers
, the
Norwegian Union of Building Industry Workers
and the
Norwegian Union of Paper Industry Workers
to form the
United Federation of Trade Unions
. It had about 7,200 members before the merger.