The Swiss Typographers' Union (German: Schweizerischer Typographenbund, STB; French: Fédération Suisse des Typographes) was a trade union representing printers, based in Switzerland.
The union was founded in 1858 in Olten, becoming the first enduring trade union in Switzerland.[1] It achieved early success by negotiating wage increases, leading many strikes, and in 1912 it achieved a closed shop agreement, in co-ordination with its Christian and liberal rivals. It was an early member of the Swiss Trade Union Federation,[2] while in 1892, it led the formation of the International Typographers' Secretariat, thereafter hosting its headquarters.[3]
By the end of World War I, the union had a national presence, although until 1926 it did not admit women or workers it considered to be less skilled.[4] By 1954, the union had 10,560 members,[5] and this rose to 15,466 by 1979. The following year, it merged with the Swiss Bookbinders' and Carton Makers' Union to form the Union of Printing and Paper.[6]
1858: Ed. Albrecht[7]
1862: U. Müller
1863: Fr. Niklaus
1864: J. Kleinert
1865: J. Boß
1866: F. Wittmer
1867: K. Ehrensberger
1868: H. Schweizer
1870: J. Rüegg
1872: Fabian Lack
1874: K. Ehrensberger
1876: H. Schweizer
1880: J. Kummer
1886: Friedrich Siebenmann
1888: F. Käser
1889: J. Frank
1892: J. Leisinger
1893: H. Unteregger
1895: A. Ammann
1898: A. Hagmann
1900: E. Pfister
1904: E. Blaser
1905: F. Brosi
1906: Fritz Verdan
1917: Hans Grundbacher
1922: H. Bräuchi
1924:
1927: Hans Huber
1946: Karl Aeschbacher
1950s: Eduard Harsch
1967: Erwin Gerster[8]