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The Rubber and Leather Workers' Union (, KJNL) 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 workers in the leather and rubber industries, including shoemakers, in Finland. The union was founded in 1930 as the Leather, Footwear and Rubber Workers' Union, replacing the Finnish Leather and Rubber Workers' Union, which had been banned. The union affiliated to the
Finnish Federation of Trade Unions The Finnish Federation of Trade Unions (, 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 affiliates were unions which supported the ...
, and from 1969 to its successor, the
Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions, usually referred to by the acronym SAK (; ) is the largest trade union confederation in Finland. Its member organisations have a total of more than one million members, which makes up about one fif ...
. From 1956, until the late 1970s, the union was led by Väinö Huhtamäki, and was associated with the left-wing of the union movement. Huhtamäki himself was the only union leader to support the
Communist Party of Finland The Communist Party of Finland (, SKP; ) was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944. The SKP was banned by the state from its founding and did not participate in any elec ...
. Its membership peaked at 15,900 in 1983, but by 1992, had fallen to 9,970. The following year, it merged with the Chemical Workers' Union, to form the Chemical Union.


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{{Authority control Leather industry trade unions Footwear industry trade unions Plastics and rubber trade unions Trade unions in Finland Trade unions established in 1930 Trade unions disestablished in 1993