# Curt Persson

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**Curt Persson** (8 November 1938 – 23 November 2020) was a [Swedish](/source/Swedish_people) trade union leader.

Persson started work in 1954 as a postman and joined the [Swedish Post Union](/source/Swedish_Post_Union). In 1961, he became education officer for its [Malmö](/source/Malm%C3%B6) branch, later serving as its secretary, then its chair. In 1969, he began working full-time for the Cartel of State Employees, then from 1970 as an organiser for the [Swedish National Union of State Employees](/source/Swedish_National_Union_of_State_Employees) (SF). From 1972, he was a negotiator for the union, then chief negotiator from 1978. In 1984, he was elected as president of SF, in which role he encouraged it to recruit outside the public sector.[1][2][3]

In 1990, Persson was additionally elected as president of the [Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International](/source/Postal,_Telegraph_and_Telephone_International) (PTTI), championing it working more closely with the [International Graphical Federation](/source/International_Graphical_Federation) and the [International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees](/source/International_Federation_of_Commercial,_Clerical,_Professional_and_Technical_Employees). He retired from SF in 1995, becoming chair of SOS Alarm, and stood down from the PTTI in 1997. In 2008, he became president of the [Swedish National Pensioners' Organisation](/source/Swedish_National_Pensioners'_Organisation), serving until 2015.[1][2][3] He died of complications from COVID-19 in November 2020.[4]

## References

1. Säfvelin, Ylva (22 December 2020). ["Minnesord: Curt Persson"](https://aip.nu/2020/12/22/minnesord-curt-persson/). *Aktuellt i Politiken*. Retrieved 26 February 2021.

1. ["With the passing of Curt Persson and Gary Nebeker, the global union movement lost two giants"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210121113014/https://uniglobalunion.org/news/passing-curt-persson-and-gary-nebeker-global-union-movement-lost-two-giants). *UNI Global Union*. Archived from [the original](https://www.uniglobalunion.org/news/passing-curt-persson-and-gary-nebeker-global-union-movement-lost-two-giants) on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2021.

1. Björkenwall, Robert (29 November 2020). ["Curt Persson – en facklig profil är borta"](https://demokraatti.fi/curt-persson-en-facklig-profil-ar-borta). *Demokraatti*. Retrieved 26 February 2021.

1. ["With the passing of Curt Persson and Gary Nebeker, the global union movement lost two giants"](https://uniglobalunion.org/news/with-the-passing-of-curt-persson-and-gary-nebeker-the-global-union-movement-lost-two-giants/). *UNI Global Union*. Retrieved 2024-04-11.

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