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Intensive weeks for member recruitment are back – New members get a EUR 50 gift card during the campaign period

30.10.2023

An elderly person lies on a hospital bed. A nurse's glove-covered hands touch the person softly. The nurse is invisible except for blue working gloves.

Right now it’s time to invite your friends, too, to join Finland’s best and most affordable union of the welfare sectors! Together we can better look after our members’ terms and conditions of employment.

Your trade union JHL is again organising the intensive weeks for member recruitment at the turn of October/November. This is exactly the right time to join, trade union membership is the best working life insurance!

Join Trade Union JHL now

Join during the intensive weeks, you may get a EUR 50 gift card!

We welcome you to Finland’s best and most affordable union of the welfare sectors. As a thanks for becoming a member of JHL, we’re giving everyone who joins during the intensive weeks a EUR 50 gift card. The benefit applies to new working members. The gift card enables you to redeem products from the JHL Bonus Awards shop. Read more about bonus awards and JHL’s member recruitment.

Terms and conditions of getting a gift card

  • You join JHL during the intensive weeks for member recruitment, i.e. weeks 44–45. (30 October–12 November)
  • If you join by filling in the paper form, your joining date will be the day the union receives the form.
  • Your first membership fee payment is registered in JHL’s systems.
  • The benefit applies to working members, not for instance student members.

Most affordable, yet best

By joining Trade Union JHL, you get support for working life conflicts.

JHL’s membership fee is only 1% of gross pay, we’re the most affordable union of the welfare sectors. The fee includes the unemployment fund membership fee. For student members, trade union membership is free.

Membership benefits ranging from audiobooks to cruises and shop steward support

As our member, you’re entitled to a shop steward that protects your interests in the workplace, and you’ll have many possibilities to educate yourself.  We offer JHL members a comprehensive insurance package, the option to seek free legal aid and the services of a lawyer if you face problems in working life, plus numerous membership benefits for leisure time. Our members get to, say, go on cruises, spend time at cottages and listen to audiobooks at a discounted price. Learn about our comprehensive selection of membership benefits!

Let’s smash the previous record number of joiners!

The member recruitment weeks of autumn 2022 were a huge success.Over 1,000 new members joined during two weeks. This year, we can do even better together! The more members we have, the more power we have to stand up for member interests in working life. Trade Union JHL stands up for you when there are storms in working life. Invite your friends to join today!

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