The Swedish Typographers' Union (, Typograf) 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 book printers in Sweden. The union was founded on 7 July 1886 at a conference in Stockholm, and it began operations in June 1887. Founded with 355 members, it grew rapidly, and by 1909 it had 5,973 members. 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 1920. The union's journal for many years was the ''Svenska typograftidningen'', but from 1960 it instead published ''Grafisk revy'' jointly with the Swedish Bookbinders' Union (SBbaf).{{cite book , last1=Hans , first1=Nygren , title=Steg för steg, 1945-1973: en krönika i text och bild om den svenska fackföreningsrörelsens utveckling under efterkrigstiden , date=1973 , publisher=Prisma , location=Stockholm , isbn=915180705X By 1970, the union had 15,344 members. On 1 January 1973, the union merged with the SBbaf and the Swedish Lithographic Union, to form the

Swedish Graphic Workers' Union The Swedish Graphic Workers' Union (, Grafiska or GF) was a trade union representing printing industry workers in Sweden. The union was founded when the Swedish Bookbinders' Union merged with the Swedish Lithographic Union and the Swedish Typ ...

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Printing trade unions Trade unions established in 1886 Trade unions disestablished in 1973 Trade unions in Sweden