CANCELLED: 6 May is Payday – Come to Narinkka Square to show the importance of the municipal and welfare sector professionals!
Update on 6 May: The Payday event has been cancelled because the new collective agreements for the municipal and welfare sector were approved on 5 May. The agreements bring the professionals in municipalities and wellbeing services counties general-level pay increases, and the pay programme continues.
The Payday event is organised at Narikka Square in Helsinki on Tuesday 6 May at 5 pm–6.30 pm to celebrate the work of municipal and welfare sector professionals and show appreciation to it and to speak up for fair pay.
DJ Dubious Gloom starts entertaining the audience at 4 pm. The actual Payday programme starts at 5 pm. The event is hosted by seasoned journalist Katja Ståhl, and popular musician Hovimuusikko Ilkka will help set the mood. The audience will also hear greetings from the presidents of JHL, Juko and Jyty. We offer light refreshments.
The professionals in municipalities and wellbeing services counties deserve a fair pay
The employees in municipalities and wellbeing services counties do important work. In order to secure their finances, they need to get fair pay rises from the current collective agreement negotiations. In Payday we state loudly that the value of this work needs to be reflected in pay and working conditions! We welcome warmly every municipal and welfare sector employee, as well as everyone else who sees the importance of these professionals’ work and wants to show their support.
Click here to join the Payday Facebook event.
Payday is organised for the third time
This is the third Payday event. The two previous Payday events were organised three years ago, for collective agreement negotiations in spring 2022. We demanded together for a pay programme for developing the pays in the public and welfare sectors, and we got it.
Payday is organised by Public Sector Union JAU (JHL and Jyty) and the Negotiation Organisation for Public Sector Professionals JUKO, who represent the employees in the collective agreement negotiations for the municipal and welfare sectors.
Your trade union JHL negotiates on a number of collective agreements in 2025. Follow the negotiations on our website.
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