Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging
labor group
| Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging link () Website | |
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| Leader | Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging/President |
| Dutch trade union with Bilderberg connection | |
The Federation of Dutch Trade Unions (Dutch: Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging) is an national trade union centre in the Netherlands.
The FNV was founded in 1976 from the merger of the Dutch Catholic Trade Union Federation (NKV) and the social-democratic Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions (NVV). The Protestant Christian National Trade Union Federation
Although the FNV is formally independent of other organizations there are strong ideological and personal links with the social-democratic PvdA in what is known as the pillarisation. Former FNV chair Wim Kok was Prime Minister of the Netherlands, between 1994 and 2002. Politicians from other Dutch parties also have their background in FNV, former leader of the Dutch GreenLeft Paul Rosenmöller was one of the leaders of the FNV in the Rotterdam harbours.