title: Norwegian Graphical Union
text: # Norwegian Graphical Union
  
  The Norwegian Graphical Union (Norwegian: Norsk Grafisk Forbund, NGF) was a trade union representing workers in the printing industry and related trades, in Norway.
  
  ## History
  
  The union was founded in 1967, when the Norwegian Union of Typographers merged with the Norwegian Union of Bookbinders and Cardboard Workers, and the Norwegian Lithographers' and Chemographers' Union. It affiliated to the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions. By 1996, it had 14,210 members, and by 2005, it had declined to 12,200, of whom, almost half were retired.
  
  In 2006, the union merged into the United Federation of Trade Unions.
  
  ## Presidents
  
      1967: Roald Halvorsen
      1967: Arne Li
      1971: Reidar Langås
      1974: Arild Kalvik
      1983: Kjell Christoffersen
      1991: Finn Erik Thoresen
      2001: Roger Andersen
      2005: Anders Skattkjær
  