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Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ492117 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation (LPSK) is a national trade union center in Lithuania. It was founded May 1, 2002 by the merger of the Lithuanian Trade Union Unification (LPSS) and the Lithuanian Trade Union Centre (LPSC).

The LPSK is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation and the European Trade Union Confederation.

References

ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.

External links

Official site.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation” is open-knowledge reference entry. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lithuanian, Trade and Union, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002. For this dossier, Lithuanian, Trade and Union is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q492117. VIAF identifies the subject as 8966154260365324480004. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.