However, the negotiations continued on Monday 30 January and the parties next meet on 6 February. The negotiations now being conducted are part of the two-year collective agreement signed in April last year, in which it was agreed that the pay rises for 2023 would be negotiated by the end of January. The negotiations for …
In the negotiations, JUKO, the Negotiation Organization for Public Sector Professionals, aims for pay rises that boost purchasing power. The parties next meet on Monday 30 January. The negotiations for pay rises this year for university employees continued on Friday 27 January. In the negotiations, JUKO aims for pay rises that boost purchasing power. The …
Negotiations on the university employees’ pay rises for this year continued on Tuesday 24 January. The parties’ next scheduled negotiation is on Friday 27 January. The negotiations affect 34,000 employees in total. On Friday 20 January, the parties presented their negotiating goals. “As inflation continues, university employees’ real earnings have fallen. We, too, need pay …
The negotiations for the pay rises of university employees this year began on Tuesday 17 January. The negotiations affect 34,000 employees in total. Tarja Niemelä (Finnish Union of University Professors), chair of the JUKO university advisory board, and Head of Collective Bargaining Katja Aho point out that Finnish universities must be able to compete for …
The start of the spring season of university collective agreement negotiations began with an opening seminar for the employee and employer sides, which the negotiators attended to hear economic outlooks on Tuesday 10 January. The negotiations for the pay rises of around 34,000 university employees begin next Tuesday, 17 January. Tarja Niemelä (Finnish Union of …
JUKO, the Negotiation Organization for Public Sector Professionals, has approved the new universities’ collective agreement, which is valid from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2024. The pay rises in the first year will amount to 1.9%. First, a general pay rise of 1.45% for all employees under the agreement will take effect from 1 …
The negotiations on the terms of employment of approximately 34,000 university employees have continued intensely this week. The negotiations continued until midnight on Thursday. “Unfortunately, we did not reach a solution by the deadline. All the questions are still open, so we’ll continue negotiating today,” JUKO’s Head of Collective Bargaining for the university sector Katja …
The negotiations on the collective agreement for approximately 34,000 university employees continued on 23 March. JUKO wants to achieve gender-neutral language in agreement texts and an equal amount of paid family leave for each parent. This goal corresponds to the legal reform entering into force on 1 August. “The universities now have a really good …
Maria Löfgren, Executive Director of the negotiation organization JUKO, why is the university sector important for JUKO? Most people who belong to the member unions of JUKO (the Negotiation Organization for Public Sector Professionals) are university educated. Universities, in general, are the main pillar of our society’s skills, innovations and thus economic growth. From this …
Twelve years ago, the Finnish universities signed the first collective agreement of their own. According to university representatives, this agreement is not perfect but essential regardless. Early next year, the agreement will be on the table once again, and the negotiations are expected to be even more challenging than usual — again. The negotiations concluded …
Yliopisto.fi is Negotiation Organisation for Public Sector Professionals JUKO’s and its member unions’ website for people working at universities.
