Conciliation of the university labour continues on 5 May

The university labor dispute has been conciliated this week. The conciliation will continue next week on Monday 5 May and Tuesday 6 May.

To expedite the collective agreement, the employee representatives JUKO, JHL, and Pro have issued a strike notice concerning the University of Tampere.

The 24-hour strike will begin on 7 May at 00:01 and end at 23:59, if no solution is reached regarding the working conditions and salary increases for the staff of Finland’s thirteen universities before then.

Here you will find information about the jobs affected by the strike and the tasks excluded from the strike.

In addition to salary increases, the dispute concerns the teaching hour cap stated in the collective agreement, which protects those engaged in teaching and research work at universities from excessive workloads.

Negotiations on the collective agreement for the 35,000 university employees have been ongoing intensively since the beginning of February, and the contract period ended at the end of March.

A strike threat in the university sector is rare. The last time university staff went on strike was seven years ago at the University of Helsinki.

The general collective agreement for universities is being negotiated by JUKO, the Trade Union Pro, the Trade Union for the Public and Welfare Sectors JHL, and the employer organisation Finnish Education Employers (Sivista).

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