The Finnish Media Union () was 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 printing industry workers in

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

. The union was founded in 1894, as the Finnish Printers' and Bookbinders' Union. It affiliated to the Finnish Trade Union Federation, then the

Finnish Federation of Trade Unions The Finnish Federation of Trade Unions (, SAK) was a national trade union centre in Finland. The federation was established in 1930, after the Finnish Trade Union Federation (SAJ) was banned. Its initial affiliates were unions which supported the ...

until 1956, when it resigned. In 1960, it was a founder member of a new Finnish Trade Union Federation, but it resigned from it in 1967. From 1969, it held membership of the

Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions, usually referred to by the acronym SAK (; ) is the largest trade union confederation in Finland. Its member organisations have a total of more than one million members, which makes up about one fif ...

. By 1998, the union had 29,100 members. In 2008, the union entered talks with six manufacturing unions about a possible merger. Ultimately, only the Finnish Media Union and the

Chemical Union The Chemical Union (, Kemia) was a trade union representing workers in light industries in Finland. The union was established in 1993, when the Chemical Workers' Union merged with the Rubber and Leather Workers' Union The Rubber and Leather Wo ...

persevered with the talks, and at the end of 2009, the two merged, to form the

Industrial Union TEAM The Industrial Union TEAM (, TEAM) was a trade union representing manufacturing and print workers in Finland. The Chemical Union had been keen to unite the various industrial unions in Finland for several years, and opened negotiations with six o ...

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Printing trade unions Trade unions in Finland Trade unions established in 1894 Trade unions disestablished in 2009