About Vision

Vision is a trade union that focuses on you and your ideas. Together we can make sure that you get what you need for success in your career.

You can depend on our professional advice and support in any situation, good or bad. We stay close to our members in their day-to-day working life and keep abreast of developments in the labour market, so that we can always help you no matter what your employment situation is.

Vision has many members, which makes it easier for us to take initiative and use our influence to make sure your job is better than ever. When you join us as a member, you have access to a vast network of people who do the same sort of work as you – people who can be useful contacts.

Get in touch with us in whichever way suits you best. We are a countrywide organisation, which makes it easy for you to get to know us personally, and to get involved in our work, if that is what you want to do. The choice is yours.

A Fair Union

Vision is more than a local and national organisation – we are also globally oriented. We are, in fact, a Fair Union; we support human rights and the right to organise. We also believe in a sustainable environment. As a member of Vision, you can contribute to making our world a better place.

In the long run, however, membership is mainly about one thing: how to get the most out of your working life.

The leading union

Vision’s members have professions that support welfare in municipalities, county councils, churches and private companies. Vision has over 218 000 members representing thousands of professions. We are politically independent and affiliated to the TCO (the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees).

Who can become a member of Vision?

Almost anyone in the workplace can become a member of Vision, regardless of whether you are permanently or temporarily employed, or whether you full time or part time.

Our members represent over 4 000 professions: managers, engineers, human resource managers, social secretaries, economists, priests, therapeutic assistants, administrators, medical secretaries and dental nurses, amongst others. Vision’s members are employed in the public sector and in related private enterprises, or employed in the Swedish church or the free churches.

20 000 members in Vision are managers, which means we are the largest trade union representing public service management in Sweden.

The membership – What you gain

• You maximise your network. When you join us, you become part of a vast network. You will, for example, continuously be invited to participate in professional meetings, seminars and training courses. You can participate as much or as little as you want to and can.
• Salary statistics and career promotion. One of the many benefits of joining is access to coaching in salary and career issues. You can opt for personal coaching by Vision Direkt or, if you prefer, by our certified career coaches.
• Get in touch with us whenever it suits you. Do you have questions, ideas or doubts about your job? As a member you can contact Vision Direkt for counceling.
• An excellent income insurance. When you join us, you benefit from one of the best income insurances on the market, but also from several other safety insurances. Some of these are included in the membership fee, while others are optional. It is important for us that all of our members to have access to reliable insurance at reasonable prices.
• The benefits of membership. Joining us means being able to take advantage of many membership benefits that create added value in your everyday life: exercise, papers, reviews and courses are only a few examples.
• We love negotiation! Our negotiation may involve promoting an hour for health and fitness exercise or some other activity that you and your colleagues would like to start up in your workplace, or it might be negotiating professional conditions. We do the negotiating at your workplace, at national level with your employer, or internationally in Brussels.
• Hello, Minister! We focus on you and your working conditions in our efforts to influence politicians, employers and those in power. We can make them aware of what really happens in the real world and put forward our members’ opinions and ideas on developments affecting their professional conditions.
• Human rights go hand in hand with Vision membership. We support human rights, the right to organise and a sustainable environment. As one of our members, you will contribute to creating a better world. You will be a member of a Fair Union.

Become a member

You can become a member by using our form (the form is in Swedish).

Bear in mind that the membership application applies only to the union Vision and not to A-kassan Vision (the unemployment insurance).

Become a trial member today and try all our services for free for three months. After your three-month trial membership, you automatically transfer to standard fee-paying membership.

If you are under 30 the day you become a member of Vision, you only pay 100 SEK for the first year!

If you are a student, your student membership is free throughout the time of your studies.

Vision is a Fair Union

Being a Fair Union implies practising what we preach. Which can mean, for example, persuading your employer to buy Fairtrade coffee and tea for your workplace. The next step is to help the growers to achieve better conditions and better wages for their work. By making conscious choices in our everyday life we can reduce our own environmental impact in our workplace and at the same time contribute to a sustainable development. We can lobby municipalities and county councils to make ethical demands in their procurement of goods and ensure that our taxes are put to fair use.

Sustainability in ethical and environmental issues is an integral part of what our union represents and does. As a union, Vision has chosen to buy from companies which have signed collective agreements and are pro-active in health and safety issues. We want to know that the goods we buy from them are produced under fair working and environmental conditions.

Vision is the first environmentally certified Swedish union. We are dedicated to continuing this aspect of our work and pledge ourselves to reducing our environmental and climate impact as much as possible.

Discuss what is fair and unfair in your own workplace with your colleagues, and how a membership in Vision can make an important difference.

Organisation

Vision is a democratic organisation governed and developed by its members. As a member of Vision, you and your colleagues always belong to a club or a section, and as a member of your club or section you are in an ideal position to exert influence on your employer and Vision.

Our congress, held once every four years, is the union's highest decision-making body and as such elects the union's president and national board. There is also a functional council held two years after each congress.

We also have a secretariat staffed by representatives and other experts who operate from Vision's resource centre in Stockholm and seven regional centres.

There is also an unemployment insurance – A-kassan Vision – that you can join for support and benefits if you would become unemployed. The unemployment insurance has a separate membership from the union Vision.