No settlement proposal – Strike at Tampere University begins on Wednesday, 7 May
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 end at 23:59. Read more about the strike at yliopistotes.fi/en.
At Tampere University, the strike will cover all work tasks under the general collective agreement for universities.
Excluded from the strike are essential IT support and core IT services, essential care for samples and animals, and tasks whose omission would pose a danger to human life or health or significant danger to property.
In addition to salary increases, the dispute concerns the teaching hour cap included in the collective agreement, which protects those engaged in teaching and research work at universities from excessive workloads.
Negotiations for the collective agreement covering 35,000 university employees have been ongoing intensively since early February, and the contract period ended at the end of March.
A strike threat in the university sector is rare. The last time university employees 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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