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Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson: I believe the future is Nordic

As the EU focuses intensively on the Euro and other economic problems, it has never been more important to intensify Nordic cooperation says the new President of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO), Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson.
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LO’s 14th President
  • Swedish LO was founded in 1898 and today comprises 14 member unions representing 1.5 million workers.
  • Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson is LO’s 14th President and was elected by the LO congress at the end of May 2012.
  • He is 47 and comes from the village of Kosta in the traditional glass blowing region in Småland known as the Kingdom of Crystal.
  • He has been politically active since his youth. Between 1990 and 1995 he was chairman of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU), then political advisor at the Prime Minister's Office and head of information at the Social Democrat Party before becoming ombudsman at the trade union IF-Metall.
  • Since 2000 he has combined that position with being chairman of the Workers’ Educational Association (ABF).
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