Confederation of Unions for Professionals

This article is about national trade union centre in Norway. For genus of bivalve, see Unio (genus).

The Confederation of Unions for Professionals (Unio) is a national trade union centre in Norway.

Two representatives of the Norwegian labor organisation UNIO

UNIO

Confederation of Unions for Professionals
Utdanningsgruppenes Hovedorganisasjon
Predecessor	Academic and Professional Unions
Founded	December 2001
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Members	375,181 (2019)[1]
Key people	Anders Folkestad
Website	www.unio.no

The federation was formed in 2001 by unions, most of which were formerly part of the Academic and Professional Unions.^[2] It has 13 affiliated unions and is politically neutral.^[3]

Affiliates

Membership

	2018	2019	Change
Association of Clergy	n.d	2,199[4]
Association of Tax Auditors and Accountants	n.d	530[5]
Norwegian Association of Deacons	n.d	475[6]
Norwegian Association of Researchers	22,690	22,690
Norwegian Nurses Organisation	115,580	118,846	2.8%
Norwegian Occupational Therapy Association	4,148	4,325	4.3%
Norwegian Physiotherapist Association	9,935	10,100	1.7%
Norwegian Society of Radiographers	n.d	3,235[7]
Norwegian Union of Marine Engineers	6,500	6,272[8]	3.5%
Police Federation	17,353	17,475	0.7%
Union of Education	178,878	181,751	1.6%
Union of Librarians	n.d	1,748[9]
Union of University and College Graduates	4,981	5,086
Sources: Statistics Norway,[10] Unio