{{short description|Trade union in Sweden}} {{Infobox union | name = IF Metall | location = Sweden | affiliations = LO, IndustriALL | num_members = 241,951 | image = IF Metall logo.svg | image_size = 270px | founded = {{Start date|2006|01|01|df=yes}} | predecessor = Swedish Industrial Union and Swedish Metalworkers' Union | key_people = Marie Nilsson | headquarters = Olof Palmes gata 11, Stockholm, Sweden | website = [http://www.ifmetall.se/ www.ifmetall.se] | footnotes = <ref>{{cite web | title=IF Metall Collective Agreement Template | url=https://www.av.se/globalassets/filer/arbetsmiljoarbete-och-inspektioner/avtal-utstationering/collective-agreement-posting-of-workers-if-metall.pdf | access-date=2024-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240113180950/https://www.av.se/globalassets/filer/arbetsmiljoarbete-och-inspektioner/avtal-utstationering/collective-agreement-posting-of-workers-if-metall.pdf| archive-date=2024-01-13 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Sima | first=Jonna | title=Mastodonthistorik om IF Metall avslutas | website=Arbetet | date=2017-09-11 | url=https://arbetet.se/2017/09/11/mastodonthistorik-om-if-metall-avslutas/ | language=sv | access-date=2024-01-13}}</ref> }}
'''Industrifacket Metall''' (IF Metall) is a trade union in Sweden. It was formed in a 2006 merger between the Swedish Industrial Union (Industrifacket) and the Swedish Metalworkers' Union (Metall). Its roots in Metall trace back to 1888.
IF Metall has a membership density of 80%.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ifmetall.se/om-oss/vart-uppdrag-och-var-verksamhet/fakta-om-forbundet/|title = Fakta om förbundet}}</ref> On formation, it had 337,712 members, but this fell steadily, to 241,951 in 2019.<ref name="kjellberg">{{cite book |last1=Kjellberg |first1=Anders |title=The Membership Development of Swedish Trade Unions and Union Confederations Since the End of the Nineteenth Century |date=2017 |publisher=Lund University |isbn=978-9172673106 |page=86}}</ref> IF Metall represents workers in around 11,500 workplaces. 21% of its members are women, and 15% are under 30 years of age,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ifmetall.se/om-oss/press/snabbfakta-om-forbundet/|title = Snabbfakta om IF Metall}}</ref> employed in a variety of sectors, including:
* mechanical engineering and the plastics industry * the building material industry * the mining sector * the ironworks sector * the textile industry, including clothing * automobile repair shops * disabled workers doing similar tasks within government-sponsored projects, including Samhall
IF Metall is the second-largest affiliate of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation. On 4 December 2020, PTK, Kommunal, IF Metall and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (SN) signed a new main agreement on changes to employment protection (severance rules, etc.) and expanded opportunities for skills development and retraining.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kjellberg |first=Anders |url=https://portal.research.lu.se/en/publications/den-svenska-modellen-2020-pandemi-och-nytt-huvudavtal |title=Den svenska modellen 2020: pandemi och nytt huvudavtal |date=2021-04-23 |publisher=Arena Idé |isbn=978-91-985543-0-4 |language=Swedish}}</ref>
==List of chairmen== * Stefan Löfven, 2006–2012 * Anders Ferbe, 2012–2017 * Marie Nilsson, 2017–present
==Tesla strike== Mechanics affiliated with IF Metall initiated a strike against TM Sweden, a Tesla vehicle service subsidiary, on October 27, 2023, over the company's refusal to sign a collective agreement.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-10-27 |title=Strejk Inledd På Tesla I Sverige |trans-title=Strike started at Tesla in Sweden |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/strejk-inledd-pa-tesla-i-sverige |access-date=2023-11-06 |work=SVT Nyheter |language=sv |archive-date=November 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106145155/https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/strejk-inledd-pa-tesla-i-sverige |url-status=live }}</ref> The ongoing strike is the longest in Sweden in more than eighty years.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |last=Kuhn |first=Gabriel |author-link=Gabriel Kuhn |date=2024-05-08 |title=The Head of SAC: Tesla Faces a 'Stalemate' in Sweden as the Longest Strike in Decades Grinds On |url=https://turningpointmag.org/2024/05/08/the-head-of-sac-tesla-faces-a-stalemate-in-sweden-as-the-longest-strike-in-decades-grinds-on/ |access-date=2024-06-14 |work=Turning Point |archive-date=June 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240614234038/https://turningpointmag.org/2024/05/08/the-head-of-sac-tesla-faces-a-stalemate-in-sweden-as-the-longest-strike-in-decades-grinds-on/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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