5.12.2019Pay rise remains unresolved, industry strikes to follow
The Industrial Union has announced a strike from 9 to 11 December. It will cover 35,000 employees from the technology, chemical, wood product and special branches sectors.
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29.11.2019The postal strike is over and a new collective agreement reached
A new collective agreement for postal workers ends the escalating strike wave.
21.11.2019The National Conciliator’s proposal to end the postal strike totally ignored the core issue
There is no solution yet in the postal services strike.
20.11.2019Further solidarity industrial action in sight due to the postal services strike
Many unions have announced plans to take industrial action in support of the collective bargaining process in the ongoing postal strike. The Finnish Post and Logistics Union PAU strike in the state owned postal service company Posti began on Monday 11 November.
13.11.2019Postal strike is set to escalate
Helsinki (13.11.2019 - Heikki Jokinen) The strike at Posti, the government owned postal services company is set to escalate. The reason for this strike is the employer's decision to force some 700 Posti employees into another collective agreement.
12.11.2019Chemical sector collective bargaining stopped due to employers demand to hamper organising
The Industrial Union says that it has decided to stop negotiations with regard to collective bargaining in the chemical sector.
30.10.2019Employer’s demands for heavy pay and benefit cuts in technology industry stymies collective bargaining
Helsinki (30.10.2019, Heikki Jokinen) Several important collective agreements in the technology industry are nearing their expiry date at the end of October. Altogether these agreements cover 296,000 employees. In spite of the tight schedule no results are anywhere near in sight during this current round of collective bargaining.
29.10.2019JHL members have a pressing need for English-language training and member services
This is the message nursery nurse Iluminada Rodriquez-Hautala wants to convey to the union. In her opinion, JHL cannot expect all members to understand union communication in officially-written Finnish.
23.10.2019The Union of Professional Engineers in Finland turns one hundred
Engineers have now been organised in Finland for one hundred years. The first association of engineers was established in Tampere in 1919. Now the Union of Professional Engineers in Finland IL celebrates its first centennial.
10.10.2019Health care and public services unions demand a targeted pay rise and a ten-year salary programme
Tehy and JHL, the unions in the field of health care and public services demand a targeted pay rise in the forthcoming collective bargaining round. This would to a large extent be a gender equality allowance as the workforce in these sectors is primarily made up of women.
27.9.2019JHL announces collective bargaining objectives: higher wage increases for low-wage sectors than for industry, and an end to the era of increased annual working hours under the Competitiveness Pact
The winter collective bargaining round must secure higher pay increases for low-wage sectors than those of export industries in order to close the wage gap. The era of unpaid working hours is over: JHL targets a return to the level of working hours preceding the Competitiveness Pact, or else fair compensation for working extra hours.
19.9.2019Trade union confederations see the planned state budget as a step forward, but not big enough
The plans for the next state budget seem to be a move in the right direction, but when it comes to the detail there are things that could be done better, say the three trade union confederations.
16.9.2019Extended unpaid working hours yielded no positive impact in the workplace
In 2016, the three-year national Competitiveness Pact added 24 extra annual unpaid working hours for a majority of Finnish wage and salary earners. This has not had any positive effects at all on working places, quite the opposite according to a survey conducted by SAK, the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions.
29.8.2019Trade unions want to limit fast growing use of the non-compete clause in employment contracts
It is legal, under certain conditions and for a maximum of half a year, to limit an employee’s right to enter a new job in the same trade or start up their own business in the same business area of the former employer.
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.
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.