No agreement yet for the private teaching sector – the four-day strike will happen next week

New collective agreement has not been reached yet, and this means that the planned strike from 13 to 16 May will take place. Conciliation and the efforts to reach a negotiation result will continue.

Agreement on the new terms and conditions of employment for the private teaching sector has not been reached yet. The four-day strike that has been announced earlier will take place next week from 13 to 16 May. The strike involves in total over 2000 JHL, Jyty and OAJ members covered by the collective agreement for the private teaching sector in seven towns and cities.

The purpose of the strike is to speed up the process of negotiating a new collective agreement, which has taken a long time.

– Strikes are always an extreme measure and require contribution from our members. We want to thank those who took part in the previous strike and send huge support for those who are going to take industrial action next week! Our members’ participation makes a big difference, comments JHL’s Senior Bargaining Specialist Hanna Katajamäki.

Conciliation continues – the negotiators need to reach an understanding on pay raises

The collective agreement negotiations for the private teaching sector began in March. While the negotiations were on Easter break, the old collective agreement expired and a period without agreement began. After Easter the employee organisations had to stop the negotiations and issue a strike warning. Negotiations were resumed already in the next day in the National Conciliator’s office. In April the National Conciliator put forward a conciliation proposal, but the employee organisations turned it down. The strike on 23 and 24 April was carried out.

After the first strike, conciliation has continued and the negotiating parties have met each other frequently, but a solution has not been achieved. Katajamäki tells that the employee party has not been satisfied with the employer’s propositions on the pay raise amounts.

– We are largely in agreement with the employer party on the changes to the collective agreement text, but we have not reached an outcome regarding the length of the future agreement period and the level of pay raises.

Conciliation will continue at latest on 20 May.

JHL, Jyty and OAJ represent the employees, and Finnish Education Employers (FEE) represents the employers in the negotiations.

More information:
Senior Bargaining Specialist Hanna Katajamäki, 050 5137 701
Bargaining Specialist Laura Tuominen, 050 4092 460