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Trade Union News from Finland
Tekijä (Heikki Jokinen - 10.06.2026) In April 2027, Finland will elect a new parliament. The Industrial Union has now published its goals for the next parliamentary term. It calls for real change in labour, working life and growth policy, for better employment security and balance in the labour market.
Riku Aalto, the Industrial Union chairperson, says that the Government we have now has failed badly.
- The Government’s policy has been extremely short-sighted. They have made a huge number of changes to social security and labour legislation without thinking at all about the impact of such decisions, Aalto says.
Tekijä (Heikki Jokinen - 30.04.2026) Wage and salary earners must go to the polls in the next parliamentary elections in April 2027. This is the way not to repeat the unpleasant consequences of the latest elections. Representatives of the union's local chapters met in Jyväskylä to find ideas on how to activate members and local chapters.
The weekend training was hosted by the Valmet metalworkers' local chapter 74. More than 20 people from four nearby local chapters participated.
PM Petteri Orpo’s Government has, among other things, limited the right to strike, made employees more vulnerable in working life, and cut social security.
Tekijä (Heikki Jokinen - 07.04.2026) In April 2027, Finland will elect a new Parliament. There is a need for a policy change, especially in respect to employment. The Orpo-Purra government promised it would improve employment for at least 100,000 people.
This did not happen. According to Statistics Finland, there were more than 2.7 million 15–74 -year olds employed in June 2023 when the PM Orpo government came into power. In January 2026, there were only some 2.5 million in employment, thus 200,000 less.
In January, the trend employment rate was 10.3 per cent. It is the highest figure in the EU. 139,565 people have been continuously unemployed for more than one year, the highest number in 20 years.
Tekijä (Heikki Jokinen - 13.03.2026) Many people believe in fake news and conspiracy theories. The reason is simple: they want to understand and make sense of a distressing and chaotic world.
The flood of crises, wars and personal problems create a situation where there is a longing for simple and black-and-white explanations of the world, says Joonas Pörsti, a doctoral researcher and editor-in-chief for Faktabaari, the Finnish fact-checking service.
- People want to hear how things "really" are.
Leaders like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin offer simple explanations to problems. In the USA, immigrants are blamed and Russia claims that Nazis are in power in Ukraine.
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