Liv Nilsson

Norwegian trade unionist and politician
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IntroNorwegian trade unionist and politician
PlacesNorway
wasPolitician Activist Trade unionist
Work fieldActivism Politics
Gender
Female
Birth28 January 1943
Death4 July 1994 (aged 51 years)
Star signAquarius
Politics:Norwegian Labour Party
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Biography

Liv Solbjørg Nilsson (28 January 1943 – 4 July 1994) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party.

By vocation she was an office clerk at Bodø Hospital. She was elected as leader of the Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees in Nordland, later advancing to the national leadership. In 1982 she was elected as leader-designate, as it was known that the current leader would retire in 1985. She chaired the Union of Municipal Employees from 1985 to her death in 1994. During her reign the union reached the milestone of 200,000 members. She was also a member of Bodø municipal council, from 1985 to her death a secretariat member of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, and from 1985 to 1992 a central board member of the Labour Party.

She struggled with cancer since 1987 and died at the Norwegian Radium Hospital in July 1994. She was buried in Bodø.

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