{{short description|Trade union of Italy}}
The '''Italian Union of Postal Workers''' ({{langx|it|Unione Italiana Lavoratori poste}}, UIL POSTE) is a [[trade union]] representing workers at [[Poste italiane]].
The union was founded on 21 March 1950, as the '''Italian Union of Post and Telecommunication Workers'''. It affiliated to the recently founded [[Italian Labour Union]].<ref name="history">{{cite web |title=Chi siamo |url=https://www.uilposte.it/chi-siamo/ |website=UILPOSTE |accessdate=23 September 2020}}</ref> By 1965, it had only 9,900 members,<ref>{{cite book |title=Directory of Labor Organizations: Europe |volume=2 |date=1965 |publisher=United States Department of Labor |location=Washington DC |page=17.13–17.28}}</ref> but by 2013 this had grown to 29,540.<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=408–409}}</ref>
==External links== *{{official website|https://www.uilposte.it/}}
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[[Category:Communications trade unions]] [[Category:Trade unions established in 1950]] [[Category:Trade unions in Italy]]