Maj-Len Remahl

Maj-Len Anita Remahl (born 3 December 1942) is a Finnish former trade union leader.

Born in Vaasa as Maj-Len Rönnholm, she grew up in a Swedish-speaking family in Sepänkylä, then in Palosaari and Huutoniemi.

In 1980, after her second child was born, she moved to work as a regional administrator for the Commercial Workers' Union, to reduce the travel required.

[1][2] In 1999, Remahl was elected as president of the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees (FIET), the first woman to hold the post.

At the end of the year, FIET merged into the new UNI Global Union, and Remahl was elected as its president in 2001.