Comedia (union)

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From its foundation in December 1998 until it was merged into the new Syndicom union in December 2010, Comedia was the largest Swiss media union . It was created through the merger of the printing and paper trade unions (GDP), the Swiss Association of Lithographers (SLB), the Swiss Union of Journalists (as SJU until then a sub-association of the VPOD ) and the Swiss Booksellers Association (SBV). Initially, the Syndikat Schweizerischer Medienschaffender ( SSM ) and the professional journalists' organization SVJ also participated in the merger negotiations . However, these two organizations ultimately rejected membership in strike votes.

Comedia initially had around 17,000 members from all media professions and was most likely comparable with department 8 of ver.di in Germany (formerly IG Medien ). Comedia has published several periodicals for its members or for a part of them, some of which are decades old: members' newspaper “M” (tabloid), “ Typografische Monatsblätter ” (magazine for design, bimonthly), “Fachhefte grafische Industrie” (magazine for printing technology, monthly) , « Klartext » (media policy magazine, monthly). The series of teaching aids for visual design (currently 7 volumes on typesetting and typography and 1 volume on image processing) is also published by the Comedia publishing house, which is still in existence .

As the successor organization to the Swiss Typographers Association, founded in Olten in 1858 (from 1980, after merging with the Swiss Bookbinders Association, Printing and Paper Union), the media union is the oldest national professional organization in Switzerland. Based on the founding year of their oldest section, Aarau, 1818, the Swiss typographers are even considered to be the first trade union organization in Europe.

After two years of preparation, Comedia merged on December 3, 2010 with the Communication Union , which organized the employees of the Post and the Telecommunications division, to form the Syndicom union . In the new trade union, the "graphic industry and packaging", "press and electronic media", "book and media trade" and "visual communication" sectors previously organized by Comedia together form the "media" organizational area known as the "sector".

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