Postal Union Explained

Native Name:Finnish: Postiliitto
Native Name Lang:fi
Successor:Post and Logistics Union
Dissolved:2005
Merged Label:Merged with
Merged:Postal Officers' Union
Members:26,153 (1998)
Parent Organization:Joint Organisation of State Employees
Affiliation:Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions
Location Country:Finland

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

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.

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.[1]

From 2000, the union worked increasingly closely with the Postal Officers' Union, and the two merged in 2005, forming the Post and Logistics Union.[2] [3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Ebbinghaus . Bernhard . Visser . Jelle . Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945 . 2000 . Palgrave Macmillan . Basingstoke . 0333771125 . 218.
  2. Web site: Yli sata vuotta postilaisten edunvalvontaa . PAU . 18 March 2020.
  3. Web site: Industrial relations in the postal sector — Finland . Eurofound . 18 March 2020.