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The Swiss Lithographers' Union (german: Schweizerische Lithographenbund, SLB; french: Union Suisse des Lithographes) was 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 (s ...
representing printers in Switzerland. The union was founded in 1888 in
Winterthur , neighboring_municipalities = Brütten, Dinhard, Elsau, Hettlingen, Illnau-Effretikon, Kyburg, Lindau, Neftenbach, Oberembrach, Pfungen, Rickenbach, Schlatt, Seuzach, Wiesendangen, Zell , twintowns = Hall in Tirol (Austri ...
, to represent lithographers and other flat-bed printers, such as copperplate printers and chemographers. It based itself in Bern and in 1893 it affiliated to the
Swiss Trade Union Federation The Swiss Trade Union Federation (, SGB; ; , USS) is the largest national trade union center in Switzerland. History The federation was founded in 1880 and represents 361,000 members in its affiliated unions (2015). The SGB has close ties with ...
(SGB). The union came into frequent demarcation disputes with the
Swiss Typographers' Union The Swiss Typographers' Union (german: Schweizerischer Typographenbund, STB; french: Fédération Suisse des Typographes) was a trade union representing printers, based in Switzerland. The union was founded in 1858 in Olten, becoming the first en ...
, and was suspended from the SGB from 1925 until 1928 amid a dispute over offset printers; to rejoin, it had to concede that they should join its rival. Despite this, the union grew, by 1954, it had 3,059 members, From 1944 to 1958, the union's central secretary was Friedrich Segessenmann. and by 1979 this had risen to 6,279. In the 1980s, professional boundaries in the industry weakened, and in 1998 it merged with Union of Printing and Paper, the Employees' Union of the Swiss Book Trade, and the Swiss Union of Journalists, to form Comedia.


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