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Pace picking up in university collective agreement negotiations

The negotiations on the collective agreement for approximately 34,000 university employees continued on Thursday 25 March. “The negotiations are now proceeding to an intense phase in which we begin to thrash out an overall solution,” says Katja Aho, JUKO’s head of collective bargaining for the university sector. Next week, the parties are meeting for negotiations …

We are the university

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affects us all. In line with other EU member states, Finland is suspending its higher education and research cooperation with Russia. The action is aimed at supporting Ukraine, not against Russian students or researchers. A group of Russian researchers working in Finland is demanding an end to military operations in Ukraine. …

University collective agreement negotiations: key goals for text under review

The negotiations on the collective agreement for approximately 34,000 university employees continued on 21 March. On the 21st, the employees’ and employer’s representatives discussed key goals for the text of the agreement held by both parties. – Our views still diverge from each other substantially. We are arranging our collective agreement negotiations by theme this …

Topic of the day in university collective agreement negotiations: remuneration system and fixed-term contracts

The negotiations on the collective agreement for approximately 34,000 university employees continued on 18 March. On the 18th, the parties to the agreement discussed development of the remuneration system and reducing the share of employees on fixed-term contracts. JUKO wants to develop pay and the remuneration system through a longer-term salary programme, remove bottlenecks and …

A look at the results of other negotiations

The current rounds of collective agreement negotiations is the first in a long time in which agreement is at least theoretically possible without external limitations. For the entire 2010s negotiations were tied to various competitiveness solutions, and a couple of years ago removing the additional “competitiveness agreement hours” required extensive negotiation. This time around, it …

University negotiations concerning working time continued on Thursday

The negotiations on the collective agreement for approximately 34,000 university employees continued on Thursday 10 March. “We continued discussing the working time figure in the collective agreement, and evaluation of the gender effects of the agreement was also on the table,” says JUKO’s Head of Collective Bargaining Katja Aho. Regarding other specialist staff, JUKO’s goal …

University sector collective agreement negotiations continued on Thursday

The negotiations on the collective agreement for approximately 34,000 university employees continued on Thursday 3 March. “Today we talked about the collective agreement’s working time figures for other staff, and for teaching and research staff,” JUKO Head of Collective Bargaining Katja Aho says. Regarding other specialist staff, JUKO’s goal is for the provisions of the …

How do we achieve what we are entitled to?

Sometimes, it’s all about the story. The story of how something was done. I wanted to write about how we union employees are working on members’ behalf, how we’re preparing for the collective agreement negotiations and how we’re meeting and genuinely listening to the members whose corner we are fighting. We began last year, in …