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 ( ...

, 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 Tampere ...

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 po ...

. 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