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Introducing Jukka Pellinen, Chair of the Council of the Finnish Union of University Professors
Jukka Pellinen started as Chair of the Union’s Council on 1 January 2025.
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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 ea…
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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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If implemented, the layoffs at Åbo Akademi University would be a wet rag on the face of the university community – they would not bring a long-term solution
The change negotiations at Åbo Akademi University have ended in disagreement. According to the negotiation proposal, the university is considering an organisational reform and the redundancies of approximately 50 people in order to balance the finances in the longer term, as well as laying off the entire staff in order to reduce costs of …
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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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