The Association of Nurses (SuPer), the Healthcare Trade Union (Tehy) and the Private Sector Trade Union (Erto) announced on Wednesday that they have reached a collective agreement in the private social sector.
The trade unions are members of the negotiating organization Sote ry, which negotiates a collective agreement in the private social sector with the Finnish Association of Private Carers (Hali). The private social sector employs about 70,000 people in Finland.
The content of the agreement will not be made public until the governments of the negotiating parties have addressed the issue next week, the unions said in a joint press release.
Negotiations in this area have continued since February. To expedite negotiations, SuPer, Tehy and Erto announced a ban on overtime and shift work in the industry last Monday, which ended a day after the deal was reached.
The care unions are not part of the agreement in early June
The collective bargaining negotiations between the municipal associations Juko and JAU and the employer group KT, the purpose of which was to resolve a months-long labor dispute in the municipal sector, ended in June.
The deal includes a 2 percent wage increase from June and a five-year wage program that will take effect next year, according to which wages in the municipal sector will rise 5.1 percent faster than the usual rise in the cost of living.
NePer or Tehy did not take part in the negotiations and are not involved in the agreement. However, the secured increases also apply to nurses’ associations due to the equal and fair treatment of staff.