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{{short description|Trade union of Finland}}
{{expand Finnish|date=June 2023}}
The '''Finnish General Workers' Union''' ({{langx|fi|Suomen Työläisliitto}}) was a [[general union]] representing workers in Finland.
The union was established in 1930 by the [[Social Democratic Party (Finland)|Social Democratic Party]], to accept workers who had resigned from the [[Finnish Trade Union Federation]] (SAJ), unhappy at its communist leadership.  The SAJ was banned later in the year, and the General Workers' Union became the core of the new [[Finnish Federation of Trade Unions]] (SAK), although many of its members transferred to newly-formed, industry-specific unions.<ref name="ebbinghaus">{{cite book |last1=Ebbinghaus |first1=Bernhard |last2=Visser |first2=Jelle |title=Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945 |date=2000 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Basingstoke |isbn=0333771125 |pages=219}}</ref>
By 1955, the union had 10,713 members.<ref>{{cite book |title=Directory of Labor Organizations, Europe |date=1955 |publisher=United States Bureau of Labor Affairs |pages=8.7&ndash;8.16}}</ref>  It remained affiliated to the SAK when many unions left to form a new [[Finnish Trade Union Federation (1960)|Finnish Trade Union Federation]], which in 1969 merged with the SAK to form the [[Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions]].  The General Workers' Union affiliated to the new federation, its membership having grown to 15,766.<ref name="ebbinghaus" />
By 1970, most of the union's membership was in the chemical industry and general manufacturing.  That year, it merged with the majority of the [[General and Speciality Workers' Union]], to form the [[Chemical Workers' Union (Finland)|Chemical Workers' Union]].<ref name="ebbinghaus" />
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[[Category:General unions]]
[[Category:Trade unions in Finland]]
[[Category:Trade unions established in 1930]]
[[Category:Trade unions disestablished in 1970]]