Fédération graphique internationale | |
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| Merged into | Union Network International |
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| Founded | 13 May 1949 |
| Dissolved | 31 December 1999 |
| Headquarters | Monbijoustrasse 73, Bern, Switzerland |
Members | 1.2 million (1994) [1] |
| Publication | Journal of the International Graphical Federation |
| Affiliations | ICFTU |
The International Graphical Federation (IGF) was a global union federation bringing together unions of printing workers around the world.
Moved to establish the federation began in 1939, when the Lithographers' International, International Typographers' Secretariat, and International Federation of Bookbinders and Kindred Trades, agreed to merge. [2] However, due to World War II, no progress was made until 1946, when the British Printing and Kindred Trades Federation established a committee which drafted a constitution for a merged organisation. [3]
The federation was established at its first meeting, in Stockholm in 1949. It agreed to operate on a non-political basis, instead focusing on responses to technical developments in the industry, and sharing information on industrial disputes, employment and health and safety standards in each country. [3]
The federation had three boards, covering typography, lithography and bookbinding, and each agreed policies which were put to the body's congress. An executive committee with fifteen members co-ordinated the federation's activities, while a bureau of the general secretary, president, and four representatives of the country in which the headquarters were located, ran the organisation between executive committee meetings. [3]
The IGF affiliated to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), but its membership was suspended in 1967, as it had permitted the French Federation of Book Workers, a communist union from France, to affiliate. [4] [5]
At the end of 1999, the federation merged with the Communications International, the International Federation of Employees, Technicians and Managers, and the Media and Entertainment International, to form Union Network International. [6]
In 1979, the following unions were affiliated to the federation: [7]
| Union | Country | Affiliated membership |
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| Union of Printing and Paper | Austria | 24,272 |
| Paper and Publishing Industry Union | Belgium | 15,219 |
| Sindicato de Artes Graficas de Bogota | Colombia | 101 |
| Cyprus Industrial and Hotel Employees' Federation | Cyprus | 380 |
| Danish Typographical Union | Denmark | 11,387 |
| Danish Bookbinders' and Stationers' Union | Denmark | 8,951 |
| Danish Lithographers' Union | Denmark | 2,742 |
| Finnish Printers' and Bookbinders' Union | Finland | 23,454 |
| French Federation of Book Workers | France | 60,402 |
| Printing and Paper Union | West Germany | 158,180 |
| National Graphical Association | United Kingdom | 107,723 |
| Society of Graphical and Allied Trades | United Kingdom | 133,500 |
| Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers | United Kingdom | 21,261 |
| National Union of Wallcoverings, Decorative and Allied Trades | United Kingdom | 3,369 |
| Printing and Allied Workers' Union | Guyana | 500 |
| Hid Islenzka Prentarafelag | Iceland | 409 |
| Grafiska Sveinafelagid | Iceland | 89 |
| Indian Federation of Graphical Workers | India | 1,314 |
| Press Mazdoor Sabha | India | 1,550 |
| Irish Graphical Society | Ireland | 1,524 |
| National Union of Printing Workers in Israel | Israel | 3,960 |
| Italian Federation of Book Workers | Italy | 28,000 |
| Printers' and Bookbinders' Union in the Lebanese Republic | Lebanon | 600 |
| Federation of Printing Workers of Luxembourg | Luxembourg | 609 |
| Mauritius Printing Workers' Union | Mauritius | 104 |
| Norwegian Graphical Union | Norway | 14,123 |
| Typographical Union of Rhodesia | Rhodesia | 1,968 |
| South African Typographical Union | South Africa | 19,928 |
| Swedish Graphic Workers' Union | Sweden | 39,472 |
| Swiss Typographers' Union | Switzerland | 15,316 |
| Swiss Bookbinders' and Carton Makers' Union | Switzerland | 3,324 |
| Swiss Lithographers' Union | Switzerland | 6,279 |
| Press Workers' Union of Turkey | Turkey | 4,497 |
| Union of Commercial and Industrial Workers | Trinidad and Tobago | 396 |
| Graphic Arts International Union | United States | 91,394 |
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