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The Negotiation Organisation for Public Sector Professionals JUKO has accepted the proposal by National Conciliator Anu Sajavaara to resolve the university labour dispute. Pro and JHL, as well as the employer organization Finnish Education Employers (Sivista), have also accepted the settlement proposal. With the acceptance of the proposal, the 24-hour strike that was to affect …

National Conciliator Anu Sajavaara has presented a settlement proposal in the university collective agreement dispute on Monday, May 19th. The parties have been asked to respond by Wednesday, May 21st, at 11:00. JUKO’s university negotiation council (yliopistoneuvottelukunta) and board will review the proposal on Tuesday. JUKO will announce its position after the National Conciliator. If …

No agreement on salary increases or teaching hour caps. The collective agreement negotiations for universities have been ongoing for over three months. Under the leadership of the National Conciliator, the labour dispute has been conciliated intensively, but no settlement proposal has been reached yet. The main contentious issues in the negotiations are salary increases and …

The Negotiation Organisation for Public Sector Professionals JUKO, Trade Union Pro, and the Trade Union for the Public and Welfare Sectors JHL have today issued a strike notice for the universities of Helsinki and Turku. The 24-hour strike will begin on May 27th at 00:01 and end at 23:59, if no solution is reached regarding …

Negotiation period The official negotiation period for the general collective agreement for universities between the negotiating parties ended on March 31st. To find a solution through negotiations, the organisations representing university staff, JUKO, Pro, and JHL, granted an additional three weeks before issuing a strike warning. Conciliation The labour dispute has been conciliated under the …

The university labor dispute was conciliated on Thursday, May 8th, and the conciliation will continue on Friday. To expedite the creation of a collective agreement, the employee representatives JUKO, JHL, and Pro organised a 24-hour strike at the University of Tampere on Wednesday, May 7th. JUKO thanks all the strikers and the member unions of …

The staff of Tampere University went on strike for salary increases and the preservation of teaching hour caps. The 24-hour strike began on Wednesday, May 7th at 00:01 and ends at 23:59. “Our staff has worked tremendously hard in recent years, often under very difficult conditions, for the benefit of the university and the entire …

The National Conciliator has not made a settlement proposal for the university labour dispute. Conciliation will continue this week on Thursday and Friday. To expedite the negotiations on the new collective agreement, a 24-hour strike by JUKO, JHL, and Pro, representing the employees, will begin at Tampere University on Wednesday, May 7th at 00:01 and …