Swedish Graphic Workers' Union

The Swedish Graphic Workers' Union (Swedish: Grafiska Fackförbundet, Grafiska or GF) was a trade union representing printing industry workers in Sweden.

Swedish Graphic Workers' Union
Native nameGrafiska Fackförbundet - Mediafacket
Founded1 January 1973
Date dissolved1 June 2009
Merged intoGS
Members23,000
JournalDagens Arbete
AffiliationLO
Key peopleTommy Andersson, president
Office locationStockholm, Sweden
CountrySweden
Websitewww.gf.se

The union was founded when the Swedish Bookbinders' Union merged with the Swedish Lithographic Union and the Swedish Typographers' Union. The merger was agreed at a congress held in Stockholm on 17 August 1972, and the new union was formed on 1 January 1973. Like all its predecessors, GF affiliated to the Swedish Trade Union Confederation.[1][2]

On foundation, the union had 33,162 members, and this grew to a peak of 40,491 in 1989. Membership then declined, in line with employment in the industry, and by 2008 it was down to only 17,251. In 2009, it merged with the Swedish Forest and Wood Workers' Union, to form GS.[1]

Presidents
1987: Valter Carlsson
1995: Malte Eriksson
2003: Jan Österlind
2007: Tommy Andersson

References
  1. Kjellberg, Anders (2017). The Membership Development of Swedish Trade Unions and Union Confederations Since the End of the Nineteenth Century. Lund University. pp. 68–69. ISBN 9172673109.
  2. Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle (2000). Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 626–630. ISBN 0333771125.
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