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 universities’ collective agreement achieved a result early on Sunday morning. The outcome of the negotiations affects approximately 34,000 university employees. Now, the governing bodies of the negotiating parties will deliberate the result. The parties to the universities’ collective agreement are JUKO, Pro Trade Union, the Trade Union for the Public and …
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 30 March. “Several questions are still open. One question of principle is whether the parties are willing enough to implement the family leave reform in the agreement,” JUKO’s Head of Collective Bargaining Katja Aho says. Objectives which are important for JUKO include:• …
Fixed-term contracts at the universities are one of the themes I constantly deal with in my advocacy work, as they are a significant issue in the university sector in particular. Roughly 70% of universities’ teaching and research staff work on fixed-term contracts. The situation is, fortunately, slightly better among other staff, but not necessarily satisfactory …
Yliopisto.fi is Negotiation Organisation for Public Sector Professionals JUKO’s and its member unions’ website for people working at universities.
