Postal Union

The Postal Union (Finnish: Postiliitto) was a trade union representing postal workers in Finland.

Not to be confused with Universal Postal Union or Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal.

Postal Union
Postiliitto
Merged withPostal Officers' Union
SuccessorPost and Logistics Union
Founded1906 (1906)
Dissolved2005
Location
Members
26,153 (1998)
Parent organization
Joint Organisation of State Employees
AffiliationsCentral Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions

The first conference of postal service workers in Finland was held in 1901, but only in 1906 did they agree to form a union, at a meeting in Tampere.[1]

In 1945, the union affiliated to the Finnish Federation of Trade Unions, but it resigned in 1960, instead joining the Joint Organisation of State Employees (VTY). Through this federation, in 1969, it became affiliated to the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK). In 1995, it left the VTY and affiliated to the SAK in its own right. By 1998, it had 26,153 members.[2]

From 2000, the union worked increasingly closely with the Postal Officers' Union, and the two merged in 2005, forming the Post and Logistics Union.[1][3]

References
  1. "Yli sata vuotta postilaisten edunvalvontaa". PAU. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  2. Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle (2000). Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 218. ISBN 0333771125.
  3. "Industrial relations in the postal sector — Finland". Eurofound. Retrieved 18 March 2020.


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