News and media releases
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The conciliation of the labor dispute involving 35,000 university employees to continue on Monday, 19 May
The 24-hour strike by JUKO, Pro and JHL at the University of Helsinki and Turku will begin at 00.01 on 27 May and end at 23.59 if no solution is found before then.
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Statement of the Finnish Union of University Professors on the Government’s public finance plan for 2026–2029
In the view of the Finnish Union of University Professors, the Government’s public finance plan for 2026–2029 is contradictory. It proposes additional funding for universities’ research and development activities and available student places, but at the same time it proposes significant cuts to the core funding of universities. Acco…
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The conciliation of the university labor dispute continued on Wednesday
No agreement on salary increases or teaching hour caps. The collective agreement negotiations for universities have been ongoing for over three months. Under the leadership of the National Conciliator, the labour dispute has been conciliated intensively, but no settlement proposal has been reached yet. The main contentious issues in the n…
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University employees: taking care of your membership fee as of 1.5.2025
The automatic collection of the membership fees for members of the Finnish Union of University Professors working in universities has been discontinued on 1 May 2025. The collection is suspended at universities for the time being. For this reason, on Wed 14 May, we sent members an invoice with payment reference numbers for taking care…
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Facts about the collective agreement negotiations and conciliation in the university sector
Negotiation period The official negotiation period for the general collective agreement for universities between the negotiating parties ended on 31 March. To find a solution through negotiations, the organisations representing university staff, JUKO, Pro, and JHL, granted an additional three weeks before issuing a strike warning. Concili…
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Varying Akava membership benefits
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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).