17 June 2023 at 13:23 Yngve Hågensen is dead Former LO leader Yngve Hågensen is dead. He died in Askim after a short period of hospitalization, writes LO. He lived to be 84 years old. Hågensen was elected LO leader in 1989 and served for 12 years, until 2001. He was described as an open, direct and sometimes hard-hitting LO leader. – It is with deep sadness that we have received the news that Yngve Hågensen has died after a short illness. He was a prominent LO leader and a towering figure in the Norwegian labor movement, says LO leader Peggy Hessen Følsvik to FriFagbevegelse. Hågensen had a difficult upbringing and lived in several orphanages, both in his birthplace Vardø and after the war in Bærum. From 1969 until 2001, he had full-time trade union work.
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