News and media releases
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Conciliation of the university labour dispute began on 24 April
The university labour dispute and the strike threat were conciliated for the first time on 24 April. National Conciliator Anu Sajavaara announced on the messaging service X that conciliation will continue on 29 and 30 April. Negotiations on the collective agreement for the 35,000 university employees have been ongoing intensively since early February, and the…
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University labor negotiations stalled – strike notice for Tampere University
No solution has been reached for the collective agreement of 35,000 university employees. Negotiations have been ongoing since early February, and the contract period ended at the end of March. To expedite the negotiations, the Negotiation Organisation for Public Sector Professionals JUKO, the Trade Union for the Public and Welfare Sector…
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University staff deserve pay raises in line with the general trend
The high-quality research conducted by university staff and the teaching based on it enable Finland’s competitive development and innovation activities. Teaching at universities is based on research, and as the level of research rises, so does the level of expertise. In the collective agreement negotiations, JUKO aims for general increase…
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University collective agreement negotiations hit a wall with teaching hour caps
No agreement has been reached on the collective agreement for some 35,000 employees of universities. The negotiating parties last met on Monday, April 14th. Negotiations have been ongoing intensively since early February, and the contract period ended at the end of March. JUKO’s negotiators state that despite the intensive negotiations, n…
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The university collective agreement negotiations did not reach a solution within the deadline
The main contractual parties for employees JUKO, Pro, and JHL, as well as the employers’ Finnish Education Employees (often Sivista in Finnish), did not reach a negotiation result in the university collective agreement negotiations by the end of March. The collective agreement period in universities ended on March 31. Despite the end of t…
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The Spring Seminar 2025
The annual Spring Seminar of the Finnish Union of University Professors will take place in Helsinki on Friday, 25 April 2025, at 12.15-3.15pm. The theme of the annual seminar is Science-based growth and well-being. It is also possible to follow the event as a live webcast. The seminar will be held in Finnish, but the webcast will have automatically generated English subtitles.
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Professors’ blog
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Into darkness
It’s very hard to write about the current state of global science without getting sucked into the whirlpool of events in the United States that is perceived by most of our colleagues as nothing short of disastrous. However, so much has been written about it already. And by the time this blogpiece goes out some…
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The Right to be Wrong
Setting aside the growing threat to the scientific literature from outright fraud, wilful misinterpretation, undeclared conflicts of interest, low-quality peer review and malign pseudo- science, it is an inevitable fact that much of what is put into print today will turn out to be erroneous when revisited in the future. At the very least,…
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Acatiimi
Acatiimi is the member and stakeholder magazine for the Finnish Union of University Professors, the Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers (FUURT) and the Union for University Teachers and Researchers in Finland (YLL).