Swiss Typographers' Union
{{Short description|Swiss trade union}}
The Swiss Typographers' Union ({{langx|de|Schweizerischer Typographenbund}}, STB; {{langx|fr|Fédération Suisse des Typographes}}) was a trade union representing printers, based in Switzerland.
The union was founded in 1858 in Olten, becoming the first enduring trade union in Switzerland.{{cite web |title=Schweizerischer Typographenbund (STB) / Fédération Suisse des Typographes / Federazione Svizzera dei Tipografi |url=https://www.findmittel.ch/archive/archNeu/Ar411.html |website=Schweizerischer Sozialarchiv |access-date=3 December 2020}} It achieved early success by negotiating wage increases, leading many strikes, and in 1912 it achieved a closed shop agreement, in co-ordination with its Christian and liberal rivals. It was an early member of the Swiss Trade Union Federation,{{cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=Joan |last2=Windmuller |first2=John P. |title=European Labor Unions |date=1992 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=031326371X |page=462}} while in 1892, it led the formation of the International Typographers' Secretariat, thereafter hosting its headquarters.{{cite book |last1=Musson |first1=A. E. |title=The Typographical Association |url=https://archive.org/details/typographicalass0000muss |url-access=registration |date=1954 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/typographicalass0000muss/page/267 267]–269}}
By the end of World War I, the union had a national presence, although until 1926 it did not admit women or workers it considered to be less skilled.{{cite web |title=Gewerkschaft Druck und Papier (GDP) |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/016494/2012-11-12/ |website=Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz |access-date=3 December 2020}} By 1954, the union had 10,560 members,{{cite book |last1=Mitchell |first1=James P. |title=Directory of Labor Organizations: Europe |date=1955 |publisher=United States Department of Labor |location=Washington DC |pages=28.16–28.24}} and this rose to 15,466 by 1979. The following year, it merged with the Swiss Bookbinders' and Carton Makers' Union to form the Union of Printing and Paper.{{cite book |last1=Ebbinghaus |first1=Bernhard |last2=Visser |first2=Jelle |title=Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945 |date=2000 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Basingstoke |isbn=0333771125 |page=676–678}}