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 Tampere. In 1945, the union affiliated to the

Finnish Federation of Trade Unions The Finnish Federation of Trade Unions ( fi, Suomen Ammattiyhdistysten Keskusliitto, 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 ...

, but it resigned in 1960, instead joining the

Joint Organisation of State Employees The Joint Organisation of State Employees ( fi, Valtion yhteisjärjestö, VTY) was a trade union federation bringing together public sector workers in Finland. The federation was established in 1921 and became known as the Federation of Civil Ser ...

(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. From 2000, the union worked increasingly closely with the Postal Officers' Union, and the two merged in 2005, forming the

Post and Logistics Union The Post and Logistics Union ( fi, Posti- ja logistiikka-alan unioni, PAU) is a trade union, principally representing postal workers, in Finland. The union was founded on 1 June 2005, when the Postal Union merged with the Postal Officers' Union ...

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