Tag: Collective bargaining
“Meager compromise” on welfare ends rail strike
The proposal was made by a national mediator. “Congratulations on the negotiations; it was an arduous task, but the fourth attempt finally produced a deal,” the mediator commented on Twitter. Locomotive drivers will return to work in their turn on Friday. The state railway company VR repeated on Thursday that the normalization of railway traffic […]
The strike of cleaning and property maintenance services expanded at midnight
Organizations have had difficulty finding common ground, especially when it comes to salary increases. While PAM had rejected the first settlement proposal on the grounds that a percentage-based increase would not have sufficiently benefited low-wage workers, it also rejected the €91 increase offered in the previous proposal as insufficient. Annika Rönni-SällinenPAM president, said on Wednesday […]
YLE: The price of food in Finland rose by more than 16% in February from a year ago
Food prices rose by 16.1 percent in November-December. The steepest annual increase in food prices was observed almost six decades ago, in 1964, when food prices rose by an average of 12 percent. In February, the prices of sugar, flour, butter and eggs rose by more than 30 percent from the previous year. The coffee […]
Do signed union agreements also apply to the catering sector?
SVEIT, the association of companies operating in the catering market, believes that jobs in this sector are not covered by collective agreements. ASÍ’s lawyer says quite clearly that the contracts concluded with the Employers’ Confederation cover jobs in the restaurant sector. Aðalgeir Ásvaldsson, executive director of SVEIT, says the organization is unhappy about not participating […]
The stevedoring strike will end after the agreement between the transport workers and the port operators
According to him, the stevedores will return to work as soon as possible, but on Saturday at the latest. “During the 25-month contract period, salary increases will increase by 6.3 percent, in addition to which there will be a so-called deferment amount of 1,100 euros,” he comment For Helsingin Sanomat on Wednesday. Kokko said people […]
YLE: AKT is ready for a long fight over the working conditions of the squatters
Juha MutruThe CEO of the Port Operators’ Association showed the opposite to the public broadcasting company that the stakeholder group wants to target wage increases to export industries. “I believe that the solution can be found within [those parameters]. We also have different texts that we can include in the solution, he said. Efforts to […]
Statistics Finland: Inflation slowed to 8.4 percent in January
However, the price of electricity remained the main factors of inflation, along with diesel prices and interest rates on both mortgages and consumer loans. In contrast, the factors that slowed down inflation were the fall in the prices of detached houses and the fall in the prices of prescription drugs. The publication of the inflation […]
Strikes in Finnish ports and road transport continue after workers rejected the cost-benefit ratio
“All textual terms had been removed from the proposal. AKT’s goal is still to reach a solution as soon as possible. comment Ismo KokkoChairman of the ACP. Juha MutruThe CEO of the Port Operators Association confirmed on Sunday that the settlement proposal only applies to wage increases, which suggests that employers are unlikely to accept […]
Strikes in ports and road transport begin after transport workers reject the new conditions
Lako’s largest ports are Hamina-Kotka, Helsinki, Hanko, Kokkola, Naantali, Pori, Oulu, Rauma, Turku and Uusikaupunki. When 90 percent of Finland’s goods exports are handled in ports, a strike could have serious consequences for Finland’s foreign trade. The strikes in the truck, tank and oil product segments of road transport began at midnight. Ismo KokkoACP chairman […]
The labor dispute in the retail trade escalates – the employers asked to stop collecting union membership fees
Anna LavikkalaThe trade union’s head of labor market affairs said the union cannot sit on the sidelines and passively oversee “proportionate” strikes aimed at employers amid collective bargaining. “In this situation, employers simply have no other choice but to resort to measures outside the negotiation table,” he stated. press release. The announcement came a day […]
Strikes possible after unions end tech industry collective agreements
Employers in the technology industry held collective bargaining negotiations with three unions throughout the fall, but in the end, the parties to the dispute could not reach an agreement on next year’s salary increases by the deadline on Friday, October 14. Riku AaltoThe chairman of the industrial union said that the parties are “exceptionally far” […]
Key labor market organizations reject the idea of combining tax cuts with wage contracts
Riku AaltoThe chairman of Teollisuusliitto met on Tuesday with Saariko’s officials and gave an unequivocal message that the trade union of about 200,000 members “is not interested” in making the tax cuts conditional on the results of the collective bargaining negotiations. “The government is doing what it’s doing on tax cuts, but it has no […]
The trade unions signed a collective agreement in the private social sector
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 […]
The Finnish Minister of Finance proposes tax cuts as a remedy for rising consumer prices
“I say directly that the reality where we do all this is not possible,” Saarikko told STT. According to the news agency, Saarikko has also presented the possibility of reducing income tax in the past, but has failed to make promises, although the reasons for the measure have been upset. – Of course, you also […]
Trade unions, employer groups resolve labor disputes in the municipal sector
Collective bargaining negotiations between the municipal associations and the employers’ groups to resolve the months-long labor dispute in the sector have ended, and both parties have reached an agreement. The new agreement will cover about 300,000 municipal employees, which will include a 2% pay rise from June. The agreement also includes a five-year wage program […]
The municipal sector will find a preliminary agreement on working conditions for hundreds of thousands
The organizations announced yesterday that they would not shed light on the content of the preliminary agreement until possible approvals. The solution applies to most occupational groups in the municipal sector, including teachers, early childhood educators, bus drivers, library workers and some social and health care workers – but not members of the Association of […]
APN podcast: The Finnish “market” tradition
Eurozone inflation accelerated to a record 8.1 per cent in May, and this week’s All Points North examines how Finland can cope with rising prices. "Now the big question is how will wage earners adjust to this higher inflation, will there be additional wage increases, how will companies react, what does that mean for collective […]
Experts agree that the living standards of Finns are falling due to rising prices and interest rates
– All in all, it is a matter of taking three steps forward, and now it seems that we need to take one step back, he summed up. In May, Statistics Finland reported that inflation accelerated to 5.7 per cent in April, mainly due to higher energy prices and agricultural inputs due to the Russian […]
The Finnish Nurses’ Unions reject the proposal to resolve the labor dispute
“It was absolutely awful. It would in no way cure or treat the shortage of care. Unfortunately, the Conciliation Board does not understand how serious the shortage of nurses is in our society. comments Rytkönen. Both Tehy and Super, he revealed, decided yesterday to begin preparations for their next transfer of the dispute – a […]
May Day speeches: Ukraine, NATO and labor disputes
Chairman and Prime Minister of the Social Democratic Party Sanna Marin spoke in Turku at a joint International Labor Day demonstration by his party and his younger government partner, the Left Alliance. In connection with the imminent public sector strike next week, Marin commented on the labor market, saying the collective bargaining system is turbulent […]
Strike on the shutters of schools and kindergartens in 10 Finnish cities next week
According to YLE, the strike covers a total of 81,000 employees in Espoo, Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Kauniainen, Kuopio, Oulu, Rovaniemi, Tampere, Turku and Vantaa. In the Helsinki metropolitan area alone, about 31,000 employees are on strike. The city of Helsinki decided on Wednesday that its Finnish-language schools would be closed due to the strike. Pylkkänen told […]
The state mediator offers a compromise offer to resolve UPM’s long-running strike
Leo FinlandMediator The mediator has submitted a settlement proposal to resolve the collective bargaining dispute between UPM and Paperiliitto. The parties must respond to the offer by Friday night. Both parties must either accept or reject the draft agreement in its entirety. The march is now the fourth month. Last Thursday, the Paper Association’s Board […]
Finnish nurses are ready to give up their profession, says Tehyn Rytkönen
Rytkönen revealed that nurses have expressed their readiness to relinquish the right to practice their profession from the Social and Health Inspectorate (Valvira). “To protect themselves specifically from a situation where a bailiff knocks on their door and forces them to act under threat of a fine.” Tehy and the Association of Nurses (Super) have […]
The Minister postpones the municipal strike in the Helsinki region
The Minister of Labor has postponed the service, school and kindergarten strike in the municipalities of the Helsinki metropolitan area for two weeks. Tuula Haatainen (SDP). The strike was scheduled to begin on April 19, but the Finnish national labor mediator asked Haatainen to postpone it. As a result, the one-week strike is now scheduled […]
The municipal strike closes schools in four cities
The cities of Rovaniemi and Oulu, among others, have announced a possible strike by municipal employees, which would affect the opening hours of schools and kindergartens on Wednesday and Thursday. Collective bargaining between employers ‘representatives and municipal workers’ unions has stalled, and unions are now calling for a strike that threatens to shut down schools […]
Friday’s newspapers: International workers ‘struggles, tire price hike and ban on overtime by nurses’ unions
The integration of foreigners into the Finnish workforce has been an embarrassing problem for years. Unnecessary language requirements are often a problem, and some job seekers say they have been discriminated against. On Friday Helsingin Sanomat tells about this On the efforts of the municipality of Espoo to map and process the access of people […]
The Paper Association will continue the strike in April
The Paper Workers’ Union announced on Thursday that the strike at UPM’s mills will continue for three weeks. This means that unless there is a breakthrough in collective bargaining, the industrial action will continue until April 2 at 6 p.m. The strike began on January 1, 2022, and the union has since been locked in […]
Healthcare unions propose five-year pay rise plan to address care shortages
The Social and Health Association Tehy and the Association of Nurses (SuPer) have proposed "to save" a social and health program to address national staff shortages. The program would mean a 3.6 percent increase in wages for health care workers over five years, in addition to the standard annual wage increases guaranteed in employment contracts. […]
Course Rights and Responsibilities in the Labor Market – January 27 at 19.00
The trade union Efling invites all members to the Rights and Responsibilities in the Labor Market course. The course will be conducted in Polish. The course provides Efling members with extensive information on labor market and trade union rights. Efling’s collective bargaining specialists will discuss the main topics such as your rights to sickness benefits […]
According to the law, employees must return to UPM’s mills
The Helsinki District Court has ruled that heat production and water treatment at UPM’s mills must be excluded from the parameters of the paper union strike. The forestry company UPM applied for precautionary measures and the Helsinki District Court issued its decision on Friday after hearing both parties. The court therefore ruled that the Paper […]
Wednesday’s newspapers: NCP leads poll, supermarkets reveal summer wages, is winter coming to an end?
According to Helsingin Sanomat, the Conservative Coalition Party topped the voter poll just a few days before the provincial elections. The NCP received 20.7 percent support from respondents with the prime minister Sanna MarinThe Social Democratic Party (SDP) is behind with 19 per cent and the Center with 16.7 per cent. The the paper said […]
The aviation strike will start on Monday, Finnair warns of possible cancellations
The trade union pro has called for an aviation strike on Monday from 6 p.m. Pro says technical workers and members of the Finnish Civil Aviation Association (IAU) are involved in the march, but the latter denies involvement in industrial action. The march is due to end on January 31st. The influential companies are Finnair, […]
In the technology industry, a strike was avoided when the parties settled a labor dispute
The agreement was found last night, a couple of hours after the two social partners had found a common tone in the collective bargaining negotiations for workers in the design and consulting sectors, with the help of a part-time mediator. Leo Finland. Jorma MalinenTrade Union Pro chairman said in a press release yesterday that wages […]
The Confederation of Finnish Industry has approved a technology agreement, a 2 percent pay rise
The Board of the Confederation of Finnish Industry has approved the result of the collective bargaining negotiations in the Finnish technology industry, which includes the metal, electronics and IT sectors. The parties to the labor dispute reached an agreement in negotiations mediated by the National Conciliator on Tuesday night Vuokko Piekkala. The board of the […]
Streets and schools remained cold in Kouvola when UPM strike removes 80% of heat supply
The city of Kouvola has reduced the ventilation and heating of some facilities to cope with UPM Kymi’s biopower plant, which normally produces about 80 percent of the city’s district heating. UPM Kymi’s strike began on Saturday, but the city’s district heating will not be interrupted despite the plant’s closure, as the backup power plants […]
The Industrial Union is threatening to shut down 300 technology companies
Riku Aalto, President of the Confederation of Industry, told me YLE announced on Thursday that the union decided to issue a strike warning when it could not reach an agreement on wage increases and the term of the agreement with employers in the technology industry. “We could not move forward in the negotiations,” he said. […]
Work in Finnish ports came to a halt yesterday due to ACP solidarity
Steveco has port terminals in Helsinki and Kotka. Immonen emphasized to the news agency that the work stoppage was organized at a particularly difficult time, as there is already container congestion in the ports after the holidays and because there will not be a full working week next week due to the Epiphany. – It […]
The strike will stop Finnish ports on Tuesday
The Transport Workers’ Union AKT will start the strike on Tuesday at 6 am due to collective bargaining disputes with the forest industry company Keitele Group. The 24-hour co-operation will put an end to virtually all port operations. The Confederation of Finnish Industries EK criticizes the change, saying that the dispute of one company threatens […]
UPM employees will go on strike if there is no agreement between the union and management
According to the Paper Association, UPM employees can start the strike from January 2 if no agreement is reached with the company on a new collective agreement. The union’s bosses announced the threat of a strike on Tuesday after a meeting at which they approved contracts with seven other companies, including the giant Metsä Group. […]
The Confederation of Finnish Industry calls for an overtime ban
Industry unions have announced a ban on overtime on pay and conditions due to ongoing controversy. They will also reject requests to change shifts if the request comes from management. The Confederation of Finnish Industry, which represents Finnish light and heavy industry workers, announced on Friday that the ban on overtime will take effect on […]
According to the union leader, employees want a pay rise of at least 2 percent
The wage increases agreed between the forest company Stora Enso and employee representatives last week may determine the level of wage increases in other sectors in the Finnish labor market. Antti Palola, The chairman of STTK, told Yle that the agreement sets a benchmark for negotiators in other fields. According to the deal, the forest […]
Tuesday’s newspapers: Regional elections, winter of dissatisfaction and property prices
The Central Party launched its regional election campaign on Monday and said it wanted a takeover of the majority of the new regional authorities. According to a recent study, enthusiasm for the election may be low, but for the center, it is a happy event. The party has long supported a new layer of elected […]
Finnair disputes with pilots about changes in working hours and daily allowances
The Finnish national airline Finnair and the Finnish Airline Pilots ‘Association dispute the changes made by the company to pilots’ working hours and daily allowances. The airline is also the subject of a similar dispute with the ACP of the Transport Workers’ Union, which represents cabin crew. "We currently have disagreements with Finnair on two […]
Rigshospitalet’s nurses will continue to protest at the latest after the strike is over
It has been a little over a week since the government intervened to end the nurses’ strike over pay and working conditions. But dissatisfied health professionals continue to conduct walkouts contrary to an agreement that they say does not make any meaningful change. In March, nurses turned down a government offer of a 5.02 percent […]
The Bank of Finland’s economist warns of a decline in cost competitiveness
Finland may lose its competitive advantage compared to other neighboring regions after the coronavirus crisis, warns an article published by the Bank of Finland on Wednesday. According to an adviser to the Bank of Finland Lauri Kajanoja, the price of labor in Finland rose in 2019-2021 relative to the euro area average. If the price […]
Survey: More than 25% of Europeans cannot afford a week’s holiday away from home
It emphasized that there are 22 million low-income citizens in the European Union, including low-paid workers, pensioners and the unemployed. “Holidays should not be a luxury for a few. While many employees are away enjoying their free time with friends and family, millions are left without low pay, ”said Esther Lynch, Deputy Secretary-General of the […]
The Riksdag rejects Prime Minister Lofven in a vote of no confidence
Sweden’s Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven, has been thrown into a vote of no confidence by the country’s parliament, after failing to secure support for his rent reform. The move paves the way for either a speedy election or a caretaker government. Lovfen was fired by parliament on Monday and became the first Swedish prime minister […]
Danes want to keep politicians out of strike
It shows a new survey conducted by the research institute Voxmeter for Ritzau. In the poll, 58.9 percent of respondents say they do not want political intervention, while 22.3 percent support it. 18.8 percent answer “do not know”. According to Henning Jørgensen, who is a labor market researcher at the Center for Labor Market Research […]
Heavy S-districts demand abolished qualifying period deduction
There is strong pressure within the Social Democrats that the qualifying period deduction for those who are ill should be abolished permanently. A number of heavy districts are now raising this demand, ahead of the party congress this autumn. “We have seen during the pandemic what benefits there are when people are actually at home […]
New dawn for old media? Facebook ban on news posts that look likely in Denmark
Facebook’s ban on news posts on the pages of its Australian members in response to a new law that would require the technology company to pay a fee for each link resulted in a 93 per cent drop in traffic to Australian news centers within 24 hours it followed. Since then, however, the media has […]
Is Finland still the Nordic countries? asks about the report of the Ministry of Finance
– In Finland, the ratio of public debt to GDP will continue to increase after the coronavirus crisis, while the debt ratio of many similar countries will stabilize or decrease. Without structural reforms, Finland’s development will still lag behind comparable countries. Is Finland still the Nordic countries? “The report asks. The authors of the report […]
Strike notice in the construction industry
In the collective bargaining movement, negotiations in the construction industry are tightening and now the union Byggnads is announcing a strike. On Friday next week, there will be a strike at 87 workplaces around the country unless unions and employers agree on a new agreement. – We have now met Byggföretagen’s unwillingness to address the […]
Trade bids are expected today
In the battle for wages, unions and employers in the trade today receive an offer from the mediators, Ekot learns. If the proposal is not accepted, there will be a strike tomorrow. The Trade Union has announced a strike for 5,000 members because they do not think that the employers in Swedish Trade offer the […]
Kommunal and SKR have a press conference
The trade union Kommunal and Sweden’s Municipalities and Regions, SKR, are holding a press conference on the collective bargaining movement. Participating in the press conference are Malin Ragnegård, union secretary and Johan Engelsog, contract secretary at Kommunal Joakim Larsson, chairman, for the Negotiation Delegation at SKR and Ulf Olsson, vice chairman of the Negotiation Delegation […]
The unions are satisfied with the industry’s wage agreement
The first wage agreements in this year’s major collective bargaining agreement are ready. Trade unions and employers in industry last night agreed on wage increases of 5.4 percent over the next 29 months, an agreement that will become the norm for the entire labor market. There is no retroactive wage increase for the corona period, […]
Final bids in the contract movement are expected
In the collective bargaining movement, unions and employers in the industry are expected to receive a final offer from their own mediators tomorrow. A contentious issue is how the parties should handle the fact that this year’s wage increases have not taken place as the negotiations were postponed this spring due to the crona pandemic, […]
The first salary offer is expected today
In the collective bargaining movement, unions and employers in the industry are expected to receive a first offer of wage increases from their own mediators today, Ekot experiences. The parties will respond to the offer tomorrow Tuesday. One week ago, unions and employers agreed to the plan that the mediators have, that the parties will […]
The front line of the corona crisis in focus during the contract movement
The Swedish collective bargaining movement has begun and at the same time wage negotiations are also underway in several other European countries. In Sweden’s largest export countries; Norway and Germany, wage agreements appear to be moderate, but conflicts have also erupted. Torsten Müller, a researcher at ETUI, the Institute of the European Trade Union Movement […]
After the virus smock – Sweden’s economy is recovering quickly
The economic recovery after the corona pandemic differs greatly between different countries, according to Handelsbanken’s economic report. In Sweden, GDP is expected to decrease less this year than the average for the euro countries. – There is a big difference between the countries, absolutely. There are major challenges for the continued cooperation and opportunities to […]
Hummelgaard on pension negotiations: Looks promising
Minister of Employment Peter Hummelgaard (S) is currently working to close an agreement on earlier retirement. The Social Democrat government, the Socialist People’s Party, the Unity List and the Danish People’s Party are negotiating on the loose. – It looks promising. Still with some bumps that need to be resolved in the negotiations, Hummelgaard said […]
New demands from Kommunal in the contract movement
Today, the largest LO union Kommunal comes with new demands in the collective bargaining movement. Abolished qualifying period deductions in the event of illness and retroactive salary are new requirements that Kommunal will pursue. Now that the wage negotiations are restarting, Kommunal also sees the chance of getting more secure employment, something that the union […]
Grete Christensen has been re-elected as the nurses’ chairman
Grete Christensen has been re-elected as chairman of the Danish Nurses’ Council. The Danish Nurses’ Council writes this in a press release. Grete Christensen has been in the post since 2009, and on Wednesday night she was re-elected to head 77,000 nurses for four more years. The re-elected chairman thanks for the confidence and emphasizes […]
Much lower wage increases during the pandemic
Wages have increased much less this year than usual due to the corona pandemic and the postponed collective bargaining movement. During the second quarter, wages in Sweden increased by 1.4 percent compared with the same period last year, according to a press release from the Mediation Institute. This means that the rate of wage increase […]
