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Opening hours of the Union Office & Employment relationship counselling during summer
The Union Office is open in the summer from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The office is closed on Midsummer Eve. Due to summer holidays, the office will be closed 30.6.–31.7.2025. Therefore, it is best to contact the office in June regarding matters to be handled during the summer. After the holidays, the Office is…
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From the beginning of June, membership fees will again be collected by university employers
After the new Collective Agreement for Universities entered into force on 21 May 2025, the membership fees of members in universities will return to employer collection, i.e. only the membership fee for May must be taken care of by oneself. N.b. The invoice for May has been mailed as a letter, or if you are…
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Media releases
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Strike at Tampere University on Wednesday 7 May
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…
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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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Professors’ blog
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Dying of the light
Ever since the exodus of European scientists in the 1930s, people the world over have looked up to the US as the bastion of free enquiry and intellectual ingenuity, backed up by stalwart public support for science and academia. This is the world in which I grew up, forging part of my own scientific career…
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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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