Starting new life in Greenland
Moving to Greenland and starting a new life here can be exciting – and also a bit overwhelming, especially if you don’t know your rights as employee. Labor union SIK can help you. Click here – or on the picture above – to watch a short video about your rights.
Together we are stronger!
SIK is Greenland’s largest labor union. SIK has agreements on wages and agreements on working conditions, with large and small companies as well as with the public employers and publicly owned companies. We have local departments on the coast in various towns and villages.
WELCOME to membership! The moment SIK receive your completed registration form you are a member. The registration form can be found for download in this page below.
How to become a member
Become a member by filling in a registration form and handing it in to SIK’s local department in your home town or to the union’s headquarters in Nuuk.
► Download Registration form with instructions – click here
► List of local departments and contingents – click here
Please note
It is important that all fields in the registration form are filled.
- Paying contingent via PBS (Banks Pay Service)
- With your signature on the registration form you agree thereby to pay membership contingent via PBS.
- Your first bill on contingent being sent as giro.
- It is important you pay giro soon after receipt.
- If you do, you will not get more giro sent, payment is ongoing.
- Payment will be made each month.
It is important to contact SIK when moving
- To a different address in your hometown.
- To another city.
- If you change job.
- Or if you need to move to another country.
Withdrawal
- Cancellation of membership must be informed to SIK written. ►Download withdrawal form here
- If you cancel past after half of the month, you pay next month too.
SIK does not repay the fees retroactively.
The address of the headquarters
SIK, Issortarfimmut 11, P.O. Box 9, 3900 Nuuk – www.sik.gl
Tlf.: +299 32 21 33 Fax: +299 32 49 39
e-mail [email protected]
SIK Holiday Fund
There are two travel schemes that you can apply to SIK’s holiday fund: 1) Trips every two years, and 2) Lottery trips.
► Holiday fund trips every two years – click here for information and application form
► Lottery Trips – click here for information and application form
SIK Social Funds
As a labours union SIK has entered into agreements with private and public employers regarding benefits from a social fund. Common to these funds is that they are intendes to provide support in connection with serious illness – including to pay for travel companions and acommodations as well as to cover lost earnings. Click here to read more information about the Social Funds
The new board
SIK’s 24th congress as a labour union concluded October 31, 2025 with the election of the chairman, vice chairman and other members of the main board.
Photo: SIK’s new main board.
Front row: Chairman Jess G. Berthelsen, Vice Chairman Sofie Svendsen.
Standing from left: Jens Nuka Poulsen, Benjamin Kielsen, Pualuna Kivioq, Ane-Marie Havmøller-Jørgensen, Qulutannguaq Berthelsen, Else Jonna Lange and Nuunu Jerimiassen.
► Click here for download the summary of the main board’s report
Information folder: Shortly about why it is good to be member of SIK
Folder to print
► Click her to download the folder
The leaflet “Advantage by being member of SIK” can be printed on your own printer on A4 paper on both sides of the paper and folded into three parts. You can do this as follows:
1. Set the printer to print the first page, in actual size, and orientation: landscape.
2. Place the printed first page in the sheet feeder with the blank side up, and so that the part of the page with the SIK logo is at the bottom.
3. Print the second side of the sheet in the same way as in point 1.
The sheet is then ready to be folded. There are folding marks on the first page at the top and bottom – follow these to get a 3-fold leaflet as in the picture.