The General Dutch Typographers' Union (, ANTB) was an early

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

typographer Typography is the art and technique of Typesetting, arranging type to make written language legibility, legible, readability, readable and beauty, appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, Point (typogra ...

s in the Netherlands. The union was founded on 30 May 1866, the first national trade union in the Netherlands. It aimed to increase minimum wages from 6 to 9 guilders per ten-hour day. Despite attempts by employers to sack union members, the union endured. In later years, it was affiliated to the

Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions The Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions (, NVV) was a Dutch social-democratic trade union. History The NVV was founded in 1906 as a merger of fifteen smaller unions, as a result of the inability of the previous unions to control the radical ele ...

(NVV). In 1945, it merged with the Dutch Graphical Union, the

Dutch Litho-, Photo- and Chemographers' Union The Dutch Litho-, Photo- and Chemographers' Union (, NLFCB) 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 ...

, and the Dutch Union of Managers in the Graphic Industry, to form the General Dutch Printing Union.

Presidents

{{unreferenced section, date=June 2024 *1894: Paulus Hols *1914: Feike van der Wal *1937: Barend Ponstein

References

Printing trade unions Trade unions established in 1866 Trade unions disestablished in 1945 Trade unions in the Netherlands