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Summer employees can contact the Summer Job Helpline by phone, WhatsApp and the service’s online form for advice regarding their employment. The service is available for everyone; trade union membership is not required.
On 16 May 2023, a new collective agreement regarding Åland Post was concluded. The agreement will take effect retroactively from the beginning of the year and it will be valid until the end of 2024. Åland Post's collective agreement concerns also Axla.
PAU members have access to comprehensive legal assistance. The most typical cases ending up in court involve the termination of employment, outstanding wages and disputes concerning the interpretation of collective labour agreements. Veera Kekäle, the Union’s lawyer, will answer questions about legal assistance.
Wage increases in the collective agreement for the communications and logistics sector have been approved for 2023 and 2024.
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.
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SAK, Akava and STTK strongly condemn Russia’s attack on Ukraine in violation of international law.