During the upcoming round of collective agreement negotiations, trade union JHL is aiming for clear pay raises for the public and private sectors and welfare sectors.
A usage interruption in JHL’s electronic services will start on Friday 22 October at 6 pm and end on Monday 25 October at 8 am. During the interruption, it will not be possible to access myJHL, myCourses, omaYhdistys, the member pages at jhl.fi, or the electronic application form for becoming a member.
Be part of the story of Finnish working life, nominate yourself in your trade union JHL’s elections. What kind of a change does your trade union need? How does the union have to spend its money? If you want to be involved in deciding about JHL's direction, let your tone of voice be heard and nominate yourself for JHL's Union Council now!
Finland needs labour migration. Labour market rules must be strengthened and employee protection developed to ensure that all employees are treated equally.
The safety and well-being of our members is the most important thing for us at JHL. That’s why your trade union JHL has decided to arrange Ammattialafoorumi 2021 as a virtual event.
Workplaces can curb the climate crisis by investing in climate-friendly work methods and tools, JHL members explain in a survey. To slow down the climate crisis, many people are also willing to buy used items and eat less meat.
In the JHL Union Council, you get to decide the direction in which your trade union will take Finnish working life. You have the chance to become a Union Council representative in the elections which will be held in February 2022. Candidate nomination is open, make your tone of voice heard!
Dear members, your trade union JHL has another new benefit for you. If you need a car for a holiday or daily errands, the car rental company Green Motion has a significant discount for you.
For months, the management of Helsinki City Transport (HKL) completely misled its employees in terms of what it means in practice to turn a municipal enterprise (part of the City of Helsinki) into a company. During the cooperation negotiations, no information was given on the fact that all the metro transport operations will in practice be left outside the company.
Sunitha Akurathi and Michaël Fandi hope that the network will give them encounters, peer support and information about working life.
Make use of JHL’s latest, free membership benefit and get access to daily news media in digital format! As a member of trade union JHL, you get to read a digital newspaper for a month without commitment. In addition, BookBeat’s free period has been extended to 40 days.
The SOTE agreement enters into force today, on 1 September. Approximately 180 000 social welfare and health care workers of the municipal sector will be covered by the agreement. Employers need to notify their employees personally of the agreement change. After that, we wish that you will also update the agreement sector change in your information in the union’s member register.
Now it’s time to check and update your membership information in myJHL. Especially those who will be covered by the new social welfare and health care sector agreement (SOTE agreement) at the beginning of September should update their information. When you check your information in myJHL between 23 August and 4 October 2021, you will at the same time participate in an S Group gift card draw.
JHL members can have the free member calendar sent to them with a few clicks of a button. Order next year’s calendar by Sunday 19 September. The order will continue automatically in the coming years, meaning that you will only have to make the order once. If you've already made the order previously, you will not have to do anything. The calendar will be sent to you automatically.
In next year’s elections, JHL members will get to decide whose voice will be heard in the union's decisions. When you join trade union JHL by the end of August, you can nominate yourself in the elections.
In its extraordinary meeting, JHL’s Union Council reluctantly approved the new social welfare and health care sector collective agreement, known by its Finnish acronym as the SOTE agreement. Disappointed Union Council members spoke in the meeting about working hours and pay. JHL’s Union Council required that the SOTE agreement will only be approved by JHL if all other parties approve it as well.
Helsinki (29.06.2021 - Heikki Jokinen) Akava will cease its involvement in the Labour Institute for Economic Research PT and focus on its own research, done by their think-tank Akava Works.
This year, Helsinki Pride celebrates the milestones of equality in Finland and abroad. JHL is involved in Pride as a member union of SAK.
Member services, Employment Advice and Education Advice are at members’ service by phone throughout the summer. Also the Public and Welfare Sectors’ Unemployment Fund will be open the whole summer.
At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, health care was a bigger priority than elderly care and care workers. Because of this, especially care homes suffered from outbreaks of the coronavirus in Finland. This is what Sari Bäcklund-Kajanmaa, JHL’s special advisor, states in her report for Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
On June 13, Finland will vote in municipal elections. There are 309 municipalities in all. The latter wield considerable power - and money - to organise things like daycare, schools, traffic, public housing, cultural services, sport facilities and - until the upcoming administrative reform - health care, too.
In the municipal elections this June, you can make an impact on how the schools, libraries and sports sites of your municipality will function in the future. Advance voting starts on 26 May, election day is 13 June. Remember to vote! Only the votes cast will be counted.
The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions SAK and Workers' Educational Association TSL will provide digital training skills to one thousand employees in the next two years. Google.org is supporting the project to the tune of 220,000 euro.
A total of 68 per cent of Finns agree that a strong trade union movement is a vitally important part of Finnish society, according to a survey commissioned by the newspaper Maaseudun Tulevaisuus.