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Collective bargaining negotiations for universities are about to start

Negotiations on a collective agreement for universities start on February 4th. The validity of the general collective agreement for universities ends on March 31st, 2025. The negotiating parties of the general collective agreement for universities met on Friday, 31st January to discuss the economic situation of universities. The actual negotiations will start on Tuesday, 4th …

JUKO approves new two-year collective agreement on Tuesday 28 March

JUKO, the Negotiation Organization for Public Sector Professionals, has approved the new collective agreement for universities. The agreement applies to around 34,000 university employees. We will provide information on the content of the negotiated agreement when all parties’ governing bodies have approved it. The parties negotiating the universities’ collective agreement have been JUKO, Pro Trade …

Negotiations for university employee’s salaries continued Thursday 16 March

The negotiations for the pay rises of 34,000 university employees continued on 16 March. “Negotiations continued on salary revisions. The views of the parties still need to be reconciled. JUKO aims for general percentage increases that secure future purchasing power for all university employees”, says Tarja Niemelä, chair of the JUKO university advisory board (Finnish Union …

Negotiations for university employee’s salaries continued Wednesday

The negotiations for the pay rises of 34,000 university employees continued on 1 March. “Unfortunately, the negotiating parties did not reach an agreement on pay rises,” say Tarja Niemelä, chair of the JUKO university advisory board (Finnish Union of University Professors) and Katja Aho, JUKO’s head of collective bargaining. JUKO, the Negotiation Organization for Public Sector Professionals, …

Negotiations on pay rises for 34,000 university staff continued on Monday 27 Feb

Negotiations on university staff salaries continued on 27 February. On Monday, the salary earners’ organizations submitted their own presentation on salary increases. JUKO, the Negotiation Organization for Public Sector Professionals, has stated that the goal of the employee side is pay rises which boost purchasing power. The next time salary earners’ organizations and Sivista of …

Negotiations on this year’s pay rises stall — employee side waiting for Finnish Education Employers’ initiative to continue

The collective agreement negotiations concerning this year’s pay rises for 34,000 university employees ended for at least the time being last Friday, when Finnish Education Employers (FEE) said it did not consider there were any grounds for agreeing on new negotiation dates. Tarja Niemelä, chair of the JUKO university advisory board (Finnish Union of University …