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Trade Union News from Finland
Tekijä (06.06.2024 - Heikki Jokinen) Nowadays, multilingual workplaces are becoming more and more prevalent in Finland. This is, of course, reflected in the Industrial Union membership.
The union wants to be better able to serve all of its members, and one way to do this is through better multilingual information.
At the end of May 2024, the Industrial Union published the app Teollisuusliiton Hermes. It provides updated information about working and living in Finland, for employees and employers.
Tekijä (06.06.2024 - Heikki Jokinen) The Teollisuusliiton Hermes app is updated continuously. It collects key information on the Industrial Union collective agreements, services and membership benefits.
You can download the app, for free, at all main app stores.
The app is working not only in our two national languages Finnish and Swedish, but also in English, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Estonian, Romanian and Vietnamese. The Union website gives information in these nine languages.
Tekijä (15.05.2024 - Heikki Jokinen) The planned changes in the local bargaining legislation will distort competition. In the worst case scenario, pay might drop by even tens of thousands of euros a year.
Foreign employers active in Finland could take advantage of the new legislation. In these companies, employees are usually not organised in the Industrial Union, and there might be high turnovers in staff also. Among such employees, knowledge of the Finnish legislation and collective agreements is probably pretty limited, too.
Tekijä (15.05.2024 - Heikki Jokinen) Finland’s right-wing government plans to change local bargaining by sidelining shop stewards and make it possible, in some cases, to cut pay.
Local bargaining encompasses company level agreements regarding terms of work. The collective agreements list several areas, where it is possible to agree on something differently than that written into the sector collective agreement. These can be issues like organising work shifts, fixing holidays, and deciding on measures that have some influence on pay.
This kind of flexibility is welcomed by both companies and employees. In the technology sector, local bargaining has been part of the union collective agreements since 1994.
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