The collective labour agreement
is the single most important
agreement for employees
PAU is a member of two international organizations; Nordic Postal Union NPU and Union Network International UNI. In addition to the international organizations, PAU is a member of The Trade Union Solidarity Centre of Finland (SASK), through which the federation participates globally in improving the rights, working conditions and organizing rights of the workers. The union also has representatives on the European Works Council (EWC).
With staff and partners throughout the world, UNI Global Union brings together workers from over 150 different countries in the service economy to win better jobs and better lives. UNI helps workers build power by growing unions through organizing; protecting and expanding collective bargaining; and holding corporations and governments accountable to workers, not just an elite few.
The Trade Union Solidarity Centre of Finland (SASK) is a solidarity and development cooperation organisation of the Finnish trade union movement, focusing on labour rights.
SASK’s work is based on the fundamental principles and rights at work, defined by the International Labour Organzation ILO.
In 1994 the European Union approved the directive about the cooperation between companies between Member States. In Finland the stipulations required by the directive were implemented in 1996 by making the necessary changes to the law about collaboration in companies (Cooperative Act).
EWC activities aim to improve the information flow to the workers in the same concern and create better negotiation possibilities on European level questions. EWC is a body for worker representatives, not labour unions, with the right to meet with the corporate management at last once a year.
PAU´s representatives for the Post European Works Council are Tero Kelkka (chairman), Heikki Nygård, and Aleksi Andersson.