The Swedish Paper Workers' Union (, Pappers) is a

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

representing workers in the

pulp and paper industry The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood, specifically pulpwood, as raw material and produce pulp, paper, paperboard, and other cellulose-based products. Manufacturing process In the manufacturing process, pulp is intr ...

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. The union was established on 21 June 1920, at a conference in

Gävle Gävle ( ; ) is a Urban areas in Sweden, city in Sweden, the seat of Gävle Municipality and the capital of Gävleborg County. It had 79,004 inhabitants in 2020, which makes it the List of cities in Sweden, 13th-most-populated city in Sweden. I ...

. It brought together 6,251 workers, most from the Swedish Factory Workers' Union, but a minority from the Swedish Sawmill Industry Workers' Union. It affiliated to the

Swedish Trade Union Confederation The Swedish Trade Union Confederation ( ; literally "The National Organisation in Sweden"), commonly referred to as LO (), is a national trade union centre, an umbrella organisation for fourteen Swedish trade unions that organise mainly "blue-c ...

in 1922, and relocated its headquarters to Stockholm in 1928. In 1946, the Swedish Pulp Operators' Union merged in, and it reached a peak membership of 47,228 in 1961. The union's membership steadily dropped from the mid-1970s, along with employment in the industry. As of 2019, it had 13,494 members. Pontus Georgsson was the union's chairman at the . As of 2005, the union had 70 local affiliates, one at each mill.

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