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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, …

University salary negotiations hit speedbump

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 …

University staff pay rise under negotiation on Friday

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 …