Tekijä (11.12.2024 - Heikki Jokinen) Collective bargaining for the technology industry has been going on since September. With no real progress. For this reason, the Industrial Union issued in November the first strike warning for one day strikes in some companies in December.
- It has become clear that we can get no further by negotiating, the Industrial Union president Riku Aalto says, explaining the reason behind the strike warning.
Aalto points out that the strike warning is not only down to disagreement on the pay rise issue.
- It is a question of the entirety of the package, not only pay. Negotiations had already stagnated before we went public with our pay rise demands.
The collective agreement for the technology industry expires at the end of November. After that, strikes are both legal and possible until there is a new agreement.
Some Industrial Union collective agreements for the chemical sector will expire at the end of the year. Negotiations began in October and are still ongoing.
In the mechanical forestry sector the Union has this autumn renewed company specific collective agreements with the Metsä Group and Stora Enso. The content of the agreements has not been made public. In total, the union has some 80 agreements with companies in the sector.