The Post and Logistics Union ( fi, Posti- ja logistiikka-alan unioni, PAU) is a

trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (s ...

, principally representing postal workers, in Finland. The union was founded on 1 June 2005, when the

Postal Union The Postal Union ( fi, 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 Tampe ...

merged with the

Postal Officers' Union The Postal Officers' Union ( fi, Postin Toimihenkilöliitto, PVL) was a trade union representing postal service workers in Finland. The union was founded in 1894 in Helsinki, as the Finnish Postal Union. It did not represent all workers in the ...

. The two unions, originally representing separate groups of workers, and affiliated to different union federations, had increasingly come to co-operate. The new union chose to affiliate to the

Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions, usually referred to by the acronym SAK ( fi, Suomen Ammattiliittojen Keskusjärjestö; sv, Finlands Fackförbunds Centralorganisation, FFC) is the largest trade union confederation in Finland. Its ...

. By 2007, the union represented 82% of eligible workers in the postal service, with approximately half the members being women. As of 2020, the union had 25,004 members.

Presidents

*2005: Esa Vilkuna *2014: Heidi Nieminen

References

Postal trade unions Trade unions in Finland Trade unions established in 2005 {{Logistics-stub