Connie Kruckow

Connie Kruckow, born in 1953 on the Danish island of Falster, is a Danish nurse who led the Danish Nurses' Organization (Dansk Sygeplejeråd) from 2000 to 2009. After qualifying as a nurse she worked at Hillerød Hospital for eleven years before becoming a union secretary and then regional head for Frederiksborg County. Elected head of the organization in 2000 on a promise of higher pay, she called the nurses out on strike in 2008, a conflict that caused operations to be cancelled in Danish hospitals for eight weeks. It ended in June 2008 with a pay rise of 13.3 percent over three years and agreements on equal pay and equal training opportunities. She resigned early and returned to work as a nurse in the gynaecology department of Hillerød Hospital.