The Board of the Finnish Education Employers has decided that shop stewards and occupational safety representatives may not participate in trade union training in accordance with the Collective Agreement for Universities during working hours from 28 April 2025 onwards. The Board of the Finnish Education Employers has decided to suspend the collection of membership fees…
The spring meeting of the Council of the Finnish Union of University Professors took place on 26 April 2025 in Espoo.
The Finnish Union of University Professors has conducted its annual salary survey concerning professors’ salaries. The number of full-time (full) professors increased slightly over the year and totalled 2,036 in 2024. According to the employer survey, a (full) professor’s monthly salary in September 2024 was 7,937 euro on a permanent contract (full) and 7,434 euro…
Jukka Pellinen started as Chair of the Union’s Council on 1 January 2025.
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…
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 Sectors JHL and the Trade…
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 increases that improve purchasing power for…
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, no solutions have been found…
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 the agreement…
The Board of the Finnish Union of University Professors met on 28 March 2025 and, among other things, approved the financial statements to be presented to the Council.