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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.
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. According to the Union, the emergence of…
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 negotiations are salary increases and…
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…
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. Conciliation The labour dispute has been conciliated under the…
The Negotiation Organisation for Public Sector Professionals JUKO, Trade Union Pro, and the Trade Union for the Public and Welfare Sectors JHL have today issued a strike notice for the universities of Helsinki and Turku. The 24-hour strike will begin on 27 May at 00:01 and end at 23:59, if no solution is reached regarding…
The university labor dispute was conciliated on Thursday, 8 May, and the conciliation will continue on Friday. To expedite the creation of a collective agreement, the employee representatives JUKO, JHL, and Pro organised a 24-hour strike at the University of Tampere on Wednesday, 7 May. Members also showed support to Tampere in their own time…
The staff of Tampere University went on strike for salary increases and the preservation of teaching hour caps. The 24-hour strike began on Wednesday, 7 May at 00:01 and ends at 23:59. “Our staff has worked tremendously hard in recent years, often under very difficult conditions, for the benefit of the university and the entire…
The automatic collection of membership fees for members of the Finnish Union of University Professors working at universities has been suspended on 1 May 2025. The reason for the interruption is the industrial action decisions of university employers. Sivista has instructed its members, i.e. the universities acting as employers and their payroll administrations, to suspend…
The National Conciliator has not made a settlement proposal for the university labour dispute. Conciliation will continue this week on Thursday and Friday. To expedite the negotiations on the new collective agreement, a 24-hour strike by JUKO, JHL, and Pro, representing the employees, will begin at Tampere University on Wednesday, 7 May at 00:01 and…