The Federation of Printing Workers of Luxembourg (, FLTL) 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 printing and paper industries in

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. The union was the first to be established in Luxembourg. It was founded on 31 July 1864, as the Typographical Association, on the initiative of Peter Klein. The strongest 19th-century trade union in the country, it achieved significant improvements in working conditions for its members. In 1893, it affiliated to the

International Typographers' Secretariat The International Typographers' Secretariat (ITS) was a global union federation bringing together unions of printers around the world. History An International Typographical Congress was held in Paris in July 1889, and this led to a determinatio ...

. The union played a leading role in establishing the first trade union confederation in the country, the Union Cartel. It later joined the

General Confederation of Labour of Luxembourg The General Confederation of Labour of Luxembourg (, CGT-L) is a trade union federation in Luxembourg. The federation was established in 1927, on the initiative of unions representing railway and metal workers in Luxembourg. By the 1970s, its larg ...

. It began admitting all workers in the printing and paper industries in 1945, and accordingly changed its name to the FLTL, but remained small, with only 400 members in 1965.{{cite book , last1=Wirtz , first1=W. Willard , title=Directory of Labour Organizations: Europe , volume=2 , date=1965 , publisher=United States Department of Labor , pages=18.1–18.3 By 1989, the union had grown to 1,000 members. On 9 December 2005, it merged into the Independent Luxembourg Trade Union Confederation.

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