To expedite the collective agreement, the employee representatives JUKO, JHL, and Pro will organise a strike at the Tampere University.
The 24-hour strike will begin on May 7th at 00:01 and end at 23:59.
Welcome to Tampere on Wednesday, May 7th at 13:00
The program will start at 13:00 in front of the main building (Päätalo) on the central campus of the university, located at Kalevantie 4. There will be speeches, music, balloons, pins, and pea soup.
Come and show your “We are the university” spirit!
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Why the strike?
The employer did not offer general salary increases in line with the general trend.
- The high-quality research conducted by university staff and the quality teaching based on this research enable competitive development and innovation activities.
- The duties and responsibilities of teaching and research staff have increased: university enrolment has grown, there are more doctoral researchers, and the number of international students is growing.
- Finnish universities must also have internationally competitive operating conditions. Salary is one factor in retaining skilled employees in Finland and recruiting new talent.
University staff deserve fair salary increases. Universities are building the future of Finland every day.
The employer is pushing for the removal of teaching hour caps.
- Teaching and research staff work under the total working hours system. The teaching hour caps set out in the collective agreement are the only safeguard limiting their workload.
- Teaching has become more diverse (in-person, remote and hybrid), and staff play a key role in converting the billions invested in RDI into growth and well-being. The workload and stress levels of university staff have increased.
Increasing the workload does not improve well-being at work. Teaching hour caps ensure that adequate resources are available for teaching, and the quality remains high.
The employer did not want to improve the protection of staff against dismissal.
- Academic freedom, i.e. freedom of research, the arts and teaching, is a core value of universities. University staff cannot be dismissed on grounds that violate this freedom.
- Even if the weighty reason for dismissal is removed from the Employment Contracts Act, this must not weaken the protection of university staff against dismissal or their academic freedom.
Academic freedom must be strengthened by the terms of the collective agreement.
