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The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) and its affiliated trade unions have launched a joint campaign to boost voting activity among working people in the spring parliamentary elections.
The Finnish Post and Logistics Union PAU is to stage a sympathy strike on the loading and unloading of Posti’s and Transval Logistics Oy’s trucks and trailers. The sympathy strike will begin on Thursday 16 February at 00.00 and end on Tuesday 21 February at 24.00 unless AKT has reached a settlement on wage increases and work conditions in the road haulage sector before then.
Enquiries to the SAK employee rights advisory service increased by more than a quarter last year compared to 2021, rising from 417 to 526. Many of these contacts came from people who had fled to Finland from Ukraine and other conflict zones.
The Transport Workers’ Unemployment Fund will merge with Open Unemployment Fund, A-kassa as of 1 January 2023. The information regarding Transport Workers’ Unemployment Fund’s members‘ allowance informaton and the membership register information will be transferred to the Open Unemployment Fund’s information system during the last two weeks of December.
Fairplay at work.fi provides facts about working in Finland in 23 languages.
SAK, Akava and STTK strongly condemn Russia’s attack on Ukraine in violation of international law.
You can’t always be sure how things should go in the world of work. We have set out ten warning signs that there may be some problem in employment or at a workplace.
Each PAU member can take part and recommend membership to employees who are not yet PAU members. For each new paid-up member to PAU, you will receive a 20 € S-Group gift card, which can be spent at all S-Group stores.
Exploitative employment practices are by no means a marginal phenomenon in Finland. A new SAK service seeks to make young adults and immigrants more aware of their rights at work.
Regional State Administrative Agencies organize a webinar ”Workers’ rights in Finland” on Thursday 11.11.2021 at 17–18. The webinar is in English.