14.8.2019Riku Aalto: The fate of Finnish industry will not be solved by unpaid work
The negotiation round for the new collective agreements will begin in the next few weeks. One of the first of those to negotiate is the Industrial Union.
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6.8.2019Akava and YTN open a Brussels office
Akava, the Confederation of Unions for Professional and Managerial Staff in Finland will open its own office in Brussels. In 2016, Akava left the joint Brussels office Finunions of all three Finnish trade union confederations.
1.8.2019Finland expels 139 Uzbek construction workers due to false education documents
Migri, the Finnish Immigration Service announced in July that it has given deportation orders to 139 Uzbek construction workers this year.
5.7.2019The long and winding road of the failed activation model comes to an end
The activation model for unemployed people is to be scrapped, the Minister of Social Affairs and Health Aino-Kaisa Pekonen (Left Alliance) said on 3 July.
3.7.2019Income equality in Finland among the best in Europe
Pay differences in Finland are smaller than in most other countries in Europe, according to a new study conducted by the Labour Institute for Economic Research. The average wage and salary earners monthly income in 2015 was 3,386 euro in Finland.
20.6.2019Opening hours at the JHL Central Office and the Unemployment Fund in the summer
During the summer time the JHL Central Office and the Regional Offices will apply shorter opening hours. The Membership Services and Bargaining Department hotlines will be at your service on working days until noon. The Unemployment Fund will be open the whole summer.
7.6.2019Annika Rönni-Sällinen is the new President of the Service Union United PAM
Helsinki (7.6.2019 - Heikki Jokinen) The Union Congress of the Service Union United PAM (4 - 6 June) unanimously elected Annika Rönni-Sällinen as its new President. Ann Selin, PAM President since 2002, had already made it clear one year ago that she would not be running for re-election.
5.6.2019Unions are satisfied with the planned government programme and ready for cooperation
The trade unions are happy with the new planned government programme. The incoming PM Antti Rinne government published a general outline of its programme on 3 June.
5.6.2019New government programme promises cooperation instead of confrontation in the labour market
The five party leaders participating in the negotiations to form a new Government released on Monday, June 3, a 193-page draft government programme. It promises cooperation in the labour market instead of confrontation which was one of the hallmarks of the outgoing right wing Government headed by PM Sipilä.
24.5.2019Fate of the 24 hours annual extra work will be a most difficult issue in the next collective agreements round
The Finnish Unions agreed in 2016 to sign up to an exceptional national Competitiveness Pact under heavy pressure from PM Sipilä’s right-wing Government. The pact added 24 hours onto annual working time and cut holiday pay for those working in the public sector by 30 per cent for three years.
2.5.2019Summer job advisory service helps young employees until the end of August
The national labour confederations of Finland (SAK, Akava and STTK) are reopening their summer job information service. The service is open until the end of August. The free advisory service hotline is open between 09.00 and 15.00 on ordinary weekdays. Advice will be available in Finnish, Swedish and English.
30.4.2019Union ask Police to investigate 20 companies that tried to break industrial action by means of emergency work
The Finnish Electrical Workers' Union filed an offence report asking Police to investigate measures taken by 20 companies during the union backed overtime ban in February and March last year.
25.4.2019Majority of new MPs are union members
Trade union members are once again well represented among the members of the Finnish parliament. A majority of the MPs elected on April 14 most certainly belong to a union.
8.4.2019Nation of the Free campaign fights for labour rights in Parliamentary elections
Finland will elect a new Parliament on Sunday 14 April. The campaign Nation of the Free is striving to get labour market issues onto the electoral agenda.
2.4.2019Fragmentation of working life turns organising rate down
The fragmentation and precarisation of working life affects trade union membership, too. According to a new study union density has declined.
21.3.2019Industrial Union places embargo on Lapwall
The Industrial Union has declared an unusual embargo on the Lapwall company. The reasons for this have their roots in the strike action that occurred last October.
5.3.2019No new activation model stage two
The tripartite working group was unable to agree on new rules for unemployed jobseekers. The group was working along the lines of a so called activation model two, the Government proposal on the additional criteria jobseekers must meet to get uncut unemployment benefit.
21.2.2019Citizens’ initiative to stop activation model voted down in Parliament following most unusual debate
Helsinki (21.02.2018 - Heikki Jokinen) Debate in the Finnish Parliament on the citizens' initiative to stop the so called activation model took a peculiar turn. At the beginning of the debate on the initiative signed by 140,944 citizen not a single MP from the Government parties turned up.
19.2.2019Finnish employee must work 34 days to reach a single day’s pay for CEO
February 18 was the moment at which the average private sector employee earnings of this year surpassed a private company chief executive’s daily pay.
11.2.2019Redundancies remain at relatively low level in 2018
Helsinki (08.02.2019 - Heikki Jokinen) A total of 3,362 employees lost their jobs in private companies in Finland in the year 2018. This is practically the same figure as for the previous year, when 3,276 people were made redundant in the private sector. In 2016 the number of redundancies was 10,874.
31.1.2019Grave neglect revealed in privatised elderly care – unions demand immediate measures
Helsinki (30.01.2019 - Heikki Jokinen) Gross neglect is thought to be the reason for one death in privatised elderly care and this has created a major debate in Finland. However, trade unions have been warning about these problems for a long time.
28.1.2019Labour market organisations demand action programme regarding migrant labour
Five main Finnish labour market organisations are touring the country together to launch a broad debate on working life issues in advance of the parliamentary elections on April 14. All three trade union confederations will take part, as well as two major employers associations.
7.1.2019Gender equality increasingly the norm on Finnish Union Boards
Gender equality has become far more prevalent among trade unions in Finland. A quick look at how their boards are composed is evidence enough. In many unions the share of women and men on boards mainly reflects the membership, with few exceptions.
20.12.2018Activation model neither activates people nor helps in finding a job, it simply cuts unemployment benefits
Helsinki (20.12.2018 - Heikki Jokinen) Only 30 per cent of the unemployed have been able to meet the new criteria to get uncut unemployment benefit under the amended employment security legislation, according to a survey conducted among 6,000 members of unemployment funds run by the unions belonging to the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions SAK.