• At largest employers: Labour costs per employee vary from 25 000 to 81 000 per annum (23.07.2013)
• Financial crisis 2007-2010: Major Finnish multinationals continue to expand abroad (26.06.2013 - Timo-Erkki Heino)
• Heikki Jokinen is the new publisher of Trade Union News from Finland (28.05.2013)
• FIOH's new survey: Quality of working life in Finland has improved (21.05.2013)
• Outsourcing redundancy is becoming a business (15.05.2013)
• Finnish union confederations: EU has to respect the freedom of collective bargaining (06.05.2013)
• Unions offer helpline for summer workers (03.05.2013 - link to the web site of SAK)
• A new study: How agency labour became accepted practice (28.04.2013)
• SASK campaigns with Amnesty Finland for trade union rights (23.04.2013)
• Foreign owners make their presence felt in the Finnish paper industry (18.04.2013)
• Trade union confederations critical of sizeable cut in corporate tax rate (10.04.2013)
• Mining industry expects strong growth (26.03.2013)
• SAK: "Santa Claus came early this year" (21.03.2013 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Employers block national deal on pay and conditions (20.03.2013 - link to the web site of SAK)
• Production is returned back to Finland from Asia (13.03.2013)
• Trade unions reject a new initiative to cut young people's pay (05.03.2013)
• The Electrical Workers' Union discloses again underpayment of foreign electricians (01.03.2013)
• Violence is often present in service jobs (22.02.2013)
• Fathers to get new benefits if they stay at home with the baby (14.02.2013)
• Less sick leave with better leadership (08.02.2012)
• A master at school (08.02.2013 - link to the web site of Pam Magazine)
• German-style pay cuts tempt Finnish employers, fuels mistrust (08.02.2013 - link to the web site of Nordic Labour Journal)
• Finnish authorities getting to grips with work-related human trafficking (01.02.2013)
• Estonian Supreme Court: Equal wages for Estonians in Finland (29.01.2013 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Chemical industry leads Finnish exports (28.01.2013 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• How journalists and managers coped with unemployment during the economic recession in Finland in 1990-1995 (25.01.2013 - link to the web site of University of Helsinki) Abstract of Petteri Raito's thesis; Raito is the editor of Särmä, the magazine of the Wood and Allied Workers' Union
• Growing trend in 2012: Almost 16,000 employees lost their jobs (24.01.2013)
• Finnwatch reports on serious abuses of labour in Thai food tuna and fruit production for European markets (21.01.2013)
• The Union of Professional Engineers has begun to cooperate with Trade Union News from Finland (15.01.2013)
• Union confederations SAK and STTK seek a way towards growth (09.01.2013)
• Employer confederation EK elects new leaders and adopts a hard line (04.01.2013)
• Only one in six support the idea of raising the retirement age (29.12.2012)
• Record number of highly educated people are unemployed (20.12.2012)
• A new study questions benefits of outsourcing of public services (JHL 17.12.2012)
• JHL opposed to privatization of road-builder Destia (17.12.2012)
• Finnish-based companies breach employees’ right to organize in Mexico (14.12.2012)
• Research director Jorma Antila: Finnish industry has not lost its price competitiveness (07.12.2012)
• JHL at the PSI World Congress: Goals are the same but circumstances vary widely (JHL 07.12.2012)
• Workers' gender pay gap continued to narrow in the industrial sector (05.12.2012)
• STTK's President urges more cooperation between European trade unions (30.11.2012)
• New reverse VAT system in construction industry increases tax revenues (29.11.2012)
• Retail staff face growing danger at work (27.11.2012 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Foreigners 'invisible victims' of financial crimes (25.11.2012 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• One out of six wage and salary earners work in temporary jobs (23.11.2012)
• Eloranta regards proposals by the government for reforming the structures of municipalities and the social and health services as promising (JHL 19.11.2012)
• SAK, STTK and Akava: EU's economic and employment coordination must be based on tripartite preparation (14.11.2012)
• Very few municipal employees fear termination of employment (JHL 09.11.2012)
• A new study: Producers and users of natural rubber products ignore the serious social and health problems in the production chain (08.11.2012)
• The economic crisis has slowed down the rise of nominal pay (31.10.2012)
• Eloranta demands gender impact assessment of outsourcing and tendering (JHL 25.10.2012)
• Union confederations and SASK reject proposals to cut wages and salaries of young people (23.10.2012)
• Dozens of employees from Sri Lanka victims of aggravated extortion (16.10.2012)
• JHL serves its Swedish speaking rank and file member in Swedish (JHL 11.10.2012)
• At the OL3 nuclear power plant construction site:Payment of taxes and social security contributions has clearly improved but serious wage and working hour problems prevail (09.10.2012)
• Nordic countries worry over EU internal market package (08.10.2012 - link to the web site of Nordic Labour Journal)
• European Commission grabbing power from labour market organizations, FinUnion's Director claims (SAK / Palkkatyöläinen / Aino Pietarinen 03.10.2012)
• Programming becomes more expensive in India than in Finland (27.09.2012)
• Eloranta concerned about municipalities' ability to provide services (JHL 26.09.2012)
• More than 12,000 jobs lost to date in 2012 (24.09.2012 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Small businesses call for cuts to employment security (23.09.2012 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Not gimmicks but long-term development work improves well-being at work (Pro 21.09.2012)
• Finland’s comprehensive social guarantee for young people (20.09.2012 - link to the web site of Nordic Labour Journal)
• Finnish union leaders warn of doubtful side of "German labour market model" (18.09.2012)
• The European water campaign is now collecting signatures on the web (JHL 14.09.2012)
• Compulsory taxation ID requirement for construction workers targets the grey economy (05.09.2012)
• "Union leader on UPM's logger policy: "This deserves to be categorised as white slave trade" (31.08.2012)
• Unions turn down employer proposals to open up the framework agreement for new negotiations (25.08.2012)
• Transport Union says Metro subcontractors underpay lorry drivers (23.08.2012 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Municipal employees are ready to consider continuation of the framework agreement (JHL 22.08.2012)
• China's ACFTU wants to learn from SAK how to promote employees' rights (21.08.2012)
• Trade Union News from Finland begins its 16th year in service of the union movement today (15.08.2012)
• JHL wants more money for municipalities in the 2013 state budget (JHL 13.08.2012)
• Wages and salaries sum grew by 4.8 per cent in April to June (13.08.2012 - link to the web site of Statistics Finland)
• Unions offer hotline for young people working during summertime  (09.08.2012)
• Transfer pricing by companies cuts state tax revenue (08.08.2012 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Unemployment has gone down in Finland despite the Eurozone crisis (01.08.2012)
• Estonians favour Finland when working abroad (23.07.2012)
• JHL's rank and file members more eager than Union Council to take industrial action so as to "teach" employers (JHL 20.07.2012)
• Berry pickers must be paid at least EUR 7.91 per hour (18.07.2012)
• Two new studies: Employers' attitudes in industry have both hardened and softened (10.07.2012)
• JHL satisfied with the planned job security rule for the municipal reform (JHL 04.07.2012)
• Working group: Obligation to provide a receipt would combat grey economy in the beauty care sector (03.07.2012 - link to the web site of MEE)
• A new study found both improvement and serious deficiencies in working conditions of Chinese workers (28.06.2012)
• Eloranta: Provision of services by municipalities themselves is the bedrock of the welfare state (JHL 21.06.2012)
• In Sweden researchers find alarming number of people with criminal convictions in leading positions of listed companies (17.06.2012)
• Nokia shares plummit, unions call for action (14.06.2012 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Nokia to cut 3,700 jobs in Finland (14.06.2012 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Six unions demand TVO action against illegalities at nuclear power plant construction site (11.06.2012)
• A paperworker is just as expensive in Finland as in Sweden to the employer (06.06.2012)
• Eloranta elected unanimously to continue as President of JHL (JHL 06.06.2012)
• JHL effort to collect signatures for the water campaign underway (JHL 29.05.2012)
• A tripartite task force in search of ways to improve the unfair status of atypical labour force (28.05.2012)
• About 250 rank and file members candidate in Pro's Union Council election (Pro 22.05.2012)
• Nordic opposition to minimum wage shows lack of solidarity? (22.05.2012 - link to the web site of Nordic Labour Journal)
• Life after Nokia also means new opportunities (22.05.2012 - link to the web site of Nordic Labour Journal)
• Finland, Denmark, Germany and Sweden have successfully reformed their labour markets in the 2000s (21.05.2012)
• Pam magazine: The last links in the chain (21.05.2012 - link to the web site of Pam Magazine)
• Human rights expert Parul Sharma to join Stora Enso (21.05.2012 - link to the web site of Stora Enso)
• Salaried employees in the financial sector earn EUR2,736 on average (Pro News 14.05.2012)
• JHL: Positive interaction between employers and employees leads to longer work careers (JHL 14.05.2012)
• Labour market's ethnic discrimination most prevalent during recruitment stage (09.05.2012)
• Finns' support for organizing remains very high (04.05.2012)
• Weak control of foreign labour and companies cause major tax losses (26.04.2012)
• Eloranta wants to continue as JHL's President (JHL 23.04.2012)
• Bus drivers in Helsinki to hold a 24-hour strike on May 2 (JHL 18.04.2012)
• The number of work accidents rose again in 2011 (16.04.2012)
• PKC's biggest owner considers pulling out due to trade union restrictions at Mexican factory (11.04.2012)
• Labour disputes increasingly involve police (10.04.2012 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Wage and salary earners' pay differentials contracted further in 2010 (05.04.2012 - link to the web site of Statistics Finland)
• Labour market confederations agree on how to extend work careers by one year (03.04.2012)
• JHL's new Union Council consists of 85 Social democrats and 35 representatives of the Left Alliance (JHL 30.03.2012)
• Finnish enterprises abroad, nearly 5,000 affiliates in 118 countries in 2010 (29.03.2012 - link to the web site of Statistics Finland)
• Finnish trade unions turn down European Commission's proposal to limit the right to strike (28.03.2012)
• JHL supports move to delve into Finnish public sector's cooperation with companies operating in developing countries (JHL 27.03.2012)
• STTK: Proposals of labour market organizations setto extend work careers and safeguard justice (STTK 26.03.2012)
• SAK: A committee needed to study men's situation (23.03.2012)
• Budget talks: Increase in VAT, changes to pensions and benefits (22.03.2012 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• AKT boss out, victory for the sacked comms chief (22.03.2012 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Unemployment rate 7.7 per cent in February (20.03.2012 - link to the web site of Statistics Finland)
• Major Finnish-based companies have expanded their workforces abroad, while reducing them in Finland (16.03.2012)
• Older salaried employees are pushed out of working life by employers, Pro's survey reveals (14.03.2012)
• Gender equality has improved too slowly (JHL 08.03.2012)
• Nordic women loose power despite Denmark's new prime minister (08.03.2012 - link to the web site of Nordic Labour Journal)
• Bullying allegations shake position of Transport Workers' Union leader (06.03.2012 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• MEE's working life barometer 2011: Relevance of work and willingness to work on the decline (29.02.2012)
• SAK dissatisfied with the proposals for Finland's investment strategy (22.02.2012)
• To raise or not to raise? Labour market organizations divided over minimum retirement age (20.02.2012)
• STTK's board does not approve of raising the minimum retirement age (STTK 20.02.2012)
• Purchaser-provider model contains serious risks to services (JHL 13.02.2012)
• Municipal reform needs support of municipal employees (JHL 10.02.2012)
• German and Finnish unions fight against cuts at Nokia Siemens (09.02.2012 - link to the web site of Int. Metalworkers' Federation)
• Personnel have much to give when it comes to municipal reform (JHL 09.02.2012)
• STTK: Nokia has to bear economic responsibility for the dismissed (STTK 08.02.2012)
• Nokia to halt assembly at Salo plant (08.02.2012 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• STTK's Sund: OECD's diagnosis of Finland is correct and remedies offered are proper in the main (STTK 07.02.2012)
• PKC signs agreement with protection union in Mexico (06.02.2012 - link to the web site of Int. Metalworkers' Federation)
• Individual flexibility in working conditions act as an incentive
  to continue working longer (06.02.2012)
• STTK urges the well-to-do to bear their share of rising taxes (STTK 31.01.2012)
• Estonian builders trafficked to Finland (26.01.2012 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• High Court's decision improves the status of agency labour (25.01.2012)
• Minister sees good employment prospects for municipal employees (JHL 23.01.2012)
• Journalists appreciate open, reliable and reachable labour market leaders (20.01.2012)
• "Shortage" of low-paid part-time workers (20.01.2012 - link to the web site of Service Union United PAM)
• SASK has multiplied its reach during its first 25 years of action (17.01.2012)
• JHL wins landmark case in relation to fixed-term employment (JHL 12.01.2012)
• Presidential elections in Finland: Campaign paraphernalia are mostly made in Far East (05.01.2012)
• Disruption to electricity supply underline vital need for skilled electricians and lumberjacks (02.01.2012)

         2011

• Economists at the Finnish union confederations say: The European Central Bank has to play a central role in solving the euro crisis (30.12.2011)
• Workers' gender pay gap narrowed in the industrial sector (29.12.2011)
• Purchasing power of wage and salary earners will increase in 2012 (28.12.2011)
• JHL campaigns for equal rights to people in atypical employment (JHL 27.12.2011)
• Many municipalities plan to recall work that has been outsourced (JHL 14.12.2011)
• Disability a hindrance also to the labour market (12.12.2011 - link to the web site of Nordic Labour Journal)
• Tax number crackdown on of-the-books builders (12.12.2011 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• A third of construction workers in Helsinki region are from abroad (09.12.2011 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Foreign companies have 215 000 employees in Finland (09.12.2011)
• Polish Elektrobudowa re-employs the electricians it sacked arbitrarily (07.12.2011)
• Disparity in life expectancy between income quintiles has increased alarmingly (05.12.2011)
• Rapid government involvement has alleviated unemployment in areas of "abrupt structural change" (30.11.2011)
• Finnish pulp, paper unions make gains in 2012-2014 industry-wide pacts (29.11.2011 - link to the web site of ICEM)
• The framework agreement will regulate working conditions of 94 per cent of wage and salaries earners for next two years (28.11.2011)
• Financial sector agreement applies the framework agreement (Pro 25.11.2011)
• State employees will get pay rises on basis of framework agreement (JHL 23.11.2011)
• Municipal employees' new collective agreement applies the framework agreement (JHL 23.11.2011)
• Polish company sacks dozens of organized electricians from the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant construction site (18.11.2011)
• How do the unions handle the new debate on salary gaps? (13.11.2011 - link to the web site of Nordic Labour Journal)
• Minister of Labour Lauri Ihalainen: Improved competence will safeguard Finland's future (11.11.2011 - link to the web site of Nordic Labour Journal)
• Tight schedules speed up negotiations on how to apply the framework agreement (JHL 10.11.2011)
• Strike threat in the financial sector: Employers have not been ready to negotiate on the basis of the framework agreement (PRO 09.11.2011
• Introduction of stock options and low taxation on capital incomes have caused a swift and sharp widening of the income gap (09.11.2011)
• YTN technology industry news: A fair solution (07.11.2011 - link to the web site of Akava)
• A new study on OECD countries: "The decline in the labour share is highly likely due, at least partly, to the weakened bargaining power of labour" (05.11.2011)
• "No more pay for women this year" (27.10.2011)
• JHL's new President criticizes the British concept of "Big Society" (JHL 27.10.2011)
• Finnish metal strike over (25.10.2011 - link to the web site of IMF)
• STTK: The framework agreement will improve employees' security amidst changes in working life - A summary of the framework agreement (STTK 24.10.2011)
• Strike begins in the technology industry: Both unions and employers turned down the proposal of the National Conciliator (21.10.2011)
• Pro now negotiates on how to apply the framework agreement signed by the labour market confederations (Pro 18.10.2011)
• The 25-month agreement between labour market confederations will raise wage and salary earners' purchasing power (14.10.2011)
• Government's proposal threatens to cut already low wages by hundreds of euros at Defence Forces' catering services (JHL 12.10.2011)
• Disagreement on pay rises brings to an end confederation level collective bargaining (05.10.2011)
• Pro and Metalworkers' Union and Electrical Workers' Union issue warning of strike action (05.10.2011)
• Rautaruukki subcontractor ordered to pay Polish workers thousands of euros in back wages (04.10.2011 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Union: Embassies exploit workers (04.10.2011 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Government tries to implement zero tolerance policy towards youth unemployment (30.09.2011)
• Unions oppose cuts to job alternation leave compensation (28.09.2011)
• General applicability of sectoral collective agreements in Finland - A presentation by SAK's expert Jari Hellsten (27.09.2011 - link to the web site of WSI)
• Electrical workers' union puts in court claims for millions of euros in respect of 115 Polish electricians (26.09.2011)
• Prayer ban in break room not discrimination (23.09.2011 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Polish workers at Olkiluoto earning slave wages (23.09.2011 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Jarkko Eloranta elected unanimously as JHL's new President (JHL 23.09.2011)
• Nokia pays most of its employees in India well below a living wage (19.09.2011)
• Joint bargaining effort by wage and salary earners' union organizations in the technology industry (16.09.2011)
• Finland hunts for a new salary model (07.09.2011 - link to the web site of Nordic Labour Journal)
• Binding regulations are needed on human resources in old people's care  (JHL 01.09.2011)
• Mass redundancies and scare tactics colour the start of the new round of collective bargaining (01.09.2011)
• Economic forecast 2011-2012 (30.08.2011 - link to the web site of Labour Institute for Economic Research)
• JHL to elect its new President by the end of September (JHL 30.08.2011)
• Labour market confederations search for a framework for collective bargaining in various industries (29.08.2011)
• Changes to immigrant integration law coming up (26.08.2011 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Far higher levels of pay makes Finnish labour market attractive for Estonians (19.08.2011)
• STTK rejects additional budget cuts (STTK 19.08.2011)
• JHL's President Tuire Santamäki-Vuori chosen as Secretary of State to the Minister of Finance (JHL 15.08.2011)
• Foreigners living in Finland are much younger than Finnish nationals (12.08.2011)
• Employer tries to circumvent working hour legislation by encouraging employees to form cooperatives (JHL 08.08.2011)
• Steel workers end walk out over cheap labour use (06.08.2011 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Steelworkers protest against wage dumping of Polish construction workers (05.08.2011)
• A fifth of all hotel chambermaids have experienced sexual harassment (28.07.2011)
• Pro's Rinne: One must not bow down to violent deeds - Trade union Pro its deep condolences for the grief of Norwegians (Pro 26.07.2011)
• It is time to consider standing for JHL's Union Council (JHL 21.07.2011)
• Reaction to extreme wage dumping: Considerable number of Polish electricians join the Finnish union (17.07.2011)
• Employers disturb almost half of foremen during their vacation (11.07.2011)
• JHL opens up special web site on working conditions in atypical jobs (JHL 07.07.2011)
• Atypical jobs offer poorer vacation rights (07.07.2011)
• The government aims to create 90 000 new jobs (01.07.2011)
• Berry pickers get advice in four languages (28.06.2011 - link to the web site of SAK)
• Unions: Better competitiveness should mean better pay (27.06.2011 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• New government programme taxes high incomes more heavily than before (21.06.2010 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Trade unions satisfied with the new government programme (20.06.2011)
• Pro's President Antti Rinne: Working life element of the new government programme is well balanced (Pro 20.06.2011)
• JHL is satisfied with the general direction of the new government programme byt criticizes cuts in financing of municipal services (JHL 20.06.2011)
• ILO plays an active role in the Arab world ‑ interview with Kari Tapiola, ILO (17.06.2011)
• SAK comes out strong and united from its 18th Congress (08.06.2011)
• General discussion at the SAK Congress: Affiliated unions broadly agree on confederation's line (07.06.2011)
• Ralf Sund, STTK: "It is possible to simultaneously decrease income gaps and balance the State economy" (STTK 06.06.2011)
• Wage and salary earners' real incomes are now decreasing after a long period of steady increase (01.06.2011)
• Akava elects an experienced lobbyist Sture Fjäder as its new President (27.05.2011)
• Older than 45 - too old in current job market? (23.05.2010 - link to the web site of YLE News)
• SAK wants lowest pay to be raised to EUR1,800 per month by 2016 (23.05.2011)
• JHL thanks the City of Espoo for taking a stand against grey economy (JHL 23.05.2011)
• Technology Industries put industrial peace at risk by arrogance (Pro 23.05.2011)
• A follow-up card for workers exposed to asbestos (17.05.2011)
• Finnish paper: Walk-outs intensify because of strike-breaking (13.05.2010 - link to the web site of ICEM)
• Why should a cleaner learn Finnish? (13.05.2010 - link to the web site of PAM)
• JHL: Social security for self-employed must be improved (JHL/Trunf 06.05.2011)
• Mediation fails in Finnish paper strike: Strikes continue (03.05.2010 - link to the web site of ICEM)
• Labour confederations open help line for summer workers (02.05.2010 - link to the web site of SAK)
• More cases under investigation: Hungarian condemned for usurpy-type work discrimination in Finland (02.05.2011)
• 23 rank and file members of the JHL elected to the new Finnish Parliament (JHL 28.04.2011)
• Finnish paper strike heats up - further help needed (26.04.2010 - link to the web site of ICEM)
• Most MPs are rank and file members of trade unions (24.04.2011)
• The truth about the election winners - the True Finns (24.04.2011)
• Leila Kostiainen, the General Secretary of the STTK: Employment issues at the forefront of the government programme (24.04.2011)
• Polish engineering firm concedes to Finland's Metalliliitto at nuclear plant (18.04.2010 - link to the web site of ICEM)
• Almost 3,000 TeliaSonera salaried employees set to initiate strike on Monday (Pro 15.04.2011)
• Vast majority of Finns oppose privatisation of "a significant proportion" of public services (JHL 14.04.2011)
• Finland's Pro announces further paper strikes (13.04.2010 - link to the web site of STT / Helsinki Times)
• A third of public sector organisations apply ethical criteria in their work-clothes purchases (12.04.2011)
• Proliitto strike in Finland against paper firm UPM continues (11.04.2010 - link to the web site of ICEM)
• Salaried employees take decisive measures and opt for a two-week strike in the paper industry (Pro 07.04.2011)
• Akava and Trade Union News from Finland begin cooperation (05.04.2011)
• Unions and NGOs want to have the right to sue on behalf of individuals (04.04.2011)
• TeliaSonera staff launch five day strike (30.03.2010 - link to the web site of YLE News)
• Finnish paper sector wage accords divert between ICEM affiliates (28.03.2010 - link to the web site of ICEM)
• Joint consultation to begin in late April: Will Nokia cut thousands of jobs in Finland? (24.03.2011)
• More fatal accidents and higher frequency of accidents in 2010 (21.03.2011)
• Efforts to narrow the gender pay gap have not been effective (08.03.2011)
• Security guards' strikes called off (02.03.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Effective retirement age jumped upwards more than expected (28.02.2011)
• Bus driving mainly an immigrant's profession (25.02.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Nordic country trade unions in dialogue with ACFTU of China (23.02.2011)
• Finnish trade union movement demands EU not intervene in collective bargaining (22.02.2011)
• PAM warns of strike at Securitas (18.02.2011)
• New agreements to maintain purchasing power of municipal and state employees (JHL 17.02.2011)
• JHL: Employers' offer for the municipal sector pay rises is too low (JHL 09.02.2011)
• Bus drivers demand better security (09.02.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Trafficking in humans often hidden away (04.02.2010 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Finnish union confederations want the EU to put more pressure on Belarus (02.02.2011)
• Ambitious goal of five municipalities: All young people will be employed at least temporarily (JHL 31.01.2011)
• Stora Enso bends to High Court's ruling after irresponsible delay: Strike participants will finally receive their performance bonuses (26.01.2011)
• Bangladeshi cleaners paid slave wages in Finland (19.01.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Now organized employers make proposals to intensify fight against grey economy (17.01.2011)
• Collective bargaining back in full swing in state and municipal sectors (JHL 13.01.2011)
• New jobs hard to find for workers of closed paper mills - salaried employees have fared somewhat better (03.01.2011)

          2010

• PAM's President Ann Selin lists her wishes for the New Year (30.12.2010)
• Finns among hardest workers in the EU (29.12.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• One sixth of school assistants subjucated to weekly violence (JHL 23.12.2010)
• Stora Enso's strikers entitled to performance bonuses (23.12.2010)
• Union confederation leaders' worried about deterioration of three-tier cooperation (20.12.2010)
• Technology industry employers and unions work together to improve well-being at work (17.12.2010)
• Nokia concludes co-determination talks: 800 jobs to be cut in Finland instead of predicted 850 (15.12.2010 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Railway Workers' Union and JHL amalgamate (JHL 14.12.2010)
• Broad political support in Finland to erase precarious worker abuse (13.12.2010 - link to the web site of ICEM)
• TU and Suora amalgamate to become Pro (TU 13.12.2010)
• In Finnish industrial sector the gender pay gap remains large (12.12.2010)
• Grey economy issues now receiving much attention (29.11.2010)
• Paper union boss forced to step aside (24.11.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• TU's Rinne wants support to Ireland conditioned by higher company tax (TU 24.11.2010)
• Turkish electricians returned home (22.11.2010)
• Study: Most long-term unemployed suffer from mental problems (12.11.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• STTK working to impact next government programme (STTK 12.11.2010)
• A new English language report explains how the municipal system functions in Finland (JHL 11.11.2010)
• Public sector unions help immigrant labour integrate into Finnish society (Fipsu 10.11.2010)
• Unions adamant: Same rules for Finns must apply to immigrant labour (09.11.2010)
• Sharp divisions over shorter vacations, extended working hours (06.11.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• SAK publishes a long list of initiatives to tackle grey economy (02.11.2010)
• Helsinki home to growing class of working poor (26.10.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Personal helpers for seriously disabled persons now have a collective agreement (JHL 26.10.2010)
• Unemployed in perpetual circle of "activation programmes" (25.10.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Only a fifth of Finns would balance public sector economy by cutting social services and benefits (STTK 25.10.2010)
• Mining branch expected to bring more than 1,000 new jobs in Eastern and Northern Finland (22.10.2010 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Tripartite committee unanimous on how to support employment and economic growth (20.10.2010)
• Cleaners' wages set to rise by over 20 per cent in five years (20.10.2010)
• Why does the service sector union PAM sponsor TV's Big Brother? (19.10.2010)
• Wood workers' strike resolved with a pay rise of almost two per cent (08.10.2010)
• JHL is closely monitoring how public sector's private subcontractors use temporary labour (JHL 08.10.2010)
• Swedish woodworkers' union supports Finnish sawmill workers' strike (07.10.2010 - link to the web site of the Timber Industry Magazine)
• "Study on social assistance in the Nordic countries: "Changes have mostly been in the downward direction" (07.10.2010)
• Almost 4,000 employees affected by shutdowns at pulp and paper mills (05.10.2010 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• TU approves new collective agreement for the ICT industry and salary hikes for technology industry employees (TU 04.10.2010)
• Disagreement on seniority rewards: Strike begins in the mechanical forest industry (01.10.2010)
• STTK begins cooperation with Trade Union News from Finland (01.10.2010)
• Occupational safety inspectors prevented from entering Olkiluoto nuclear construction site (01.10.2010 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Over 80 per cent of municipal employees would be willing to recommend their employer to their friends (JHL 29.09.2010)
• Dumped wages for Turkish electricians building Finnish transmission lines (28.09.2010)
• Technology industry pay negotiations reach common understanding (TU 27.09.2010)
• Finns active on September 29 both in Brussels and Finland (24.09.2010)  - Read also: European trade union day of action on 29 September: 100,000 workers to demonstrate in Brussels  (23.09.2010)
• TU threatens strike action at TeliaSonera and Elisa (TU 23.09.2010)
• Minority ombudsman: Signs of human trafficking in recruitement of foreign berry pickers (22.09.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News) -  Thai berry pickers in Finland struggle to make ends meet (20.09.2010 - link to the web site of the Trade Union Solidarity Centre of Finland SASK)
• No salaried employees' strike in the mechanical forest and joinery industries (TU 21.09.2010)
• Economic forecast 2010-2011: Sharp turn in Finland's economic development (10.09.2010 - link to the web site of the Labour Institute for Economic Research)
• Industrial unions aim to secure employees' purchasing power by tighter mutual coordination of the bargaining processes (09.09.2010)
• TU threatens to strike in the joinery industry and at sawmills (TU 02.09.2010)
• SAK's Lyly proposes a common minimum pay rise demand for the new bargaining round (01.09.2010)
• JHL´s Santamäki-Vuori: Service purchases must have quality criteria for working conditions JHL 01.09.2010)
• Foreign workers at nuclear construction site live isolated lives (31.08.2010 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Woodworkers' union goes green: Support for a green tax reform (30.09.2010)
• A new guidebook: Insurance against an accident at work or occupational disease for employees coming to Finland (23.08.2010 - link to the web site of SAK)
• Wage and salary earners' earnings rose by 2.7 per cent in April-June (20.08.2010 - link to the web site of Statistics Finland)
• The grey economy has expanded to about 7 per cent of the GNI (20.08.2010)
• Metal workers and technology industry agree on pay settlement (16.08.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• TU resumed bargaining in the technology industry (Toimihenkilöunioni 16.08.2010)
• TU negotiates on a new collective agreement in the ICT industry (Toimihenkilöunioni 16.08.2010)
• Not all occupational diseases have been identified (10.08.2010)
• Employment relations last over eight years on average (31.07.2010)
• Hundreds of pay claims in catering and retail businesses (23.07.2010)
• Real incomes of wage and salary earners have risen steadily (13.07.2010)
• Work-related exhaustion trebles the death risk of younger industrial employees (05.07.2010)
• Despite recession SAK unions have been able to defend employees' pay levels, benefits and rights (22.06.2010)
• Authorities get tough with job offer discriminating ads (18.06.2010)
• High incidence of depression-related disability pensions among ageing professional women (15.06.2010 - link to the web site of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health)
• JHL criticises the State productivity programme for concentrating on job cuts (JHL 15.06.2010)
• Public services at the local level - The Finnish way (11.06.2010 - link to the web site of the Government Institute of Economic Research)
• Nokia and trade unions in dialogue on employees' rights in Nokia's units around the world (30.05.2010)
• JHL has played an active role in largescale local authority reform (JHL 26.05.2010)
• Helsinki bus strike averted (20.05.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• More strikes to go ahead: Employees of the City of Helsinki bus company pile pressure on employer (JHL 19.05.2010)
• Finnish company accused of charging excessive recruitment and training fees from Chinese cleaners (18.05.2010)
• SAK encourages its employees to make use of social media (13.05.2010)
• One thousand employees set to strike to protect their company-specific agreement with the City of Helsinki's bus company (JHL 07.05.2010)
• Food industry talks resume amid six-day strike (05.05.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Finnish employers exploit Vietnamese workers and Estonian electricians (03.05.2010)
• In Helsinki over 700 bus drivers protest employer's unilateral "agreement shopping" (JHL 29.04.2010)
• Sick, old and "difficult" employees first to be given notice (25.04.2010)
• Depression in young adults means huge losses for society (19.04.2010)
• Security guards and retail employees stage one-day strike
  (15/16.04.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Filipino nurses anticipate seeing serious but not angry Finns (15.04.2010 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Three-day strike looming over retail sector at the end of April (14.04.2010 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Finns outraged of Skanska's plan to bring 40 Estonian builders into Finland (12.04.2010 - link to the web site of bbn)
• Plenty of foreign berry pickers on offer (12.04.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Labour think tank forecasts rising economy (08.04.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Trends in 1997-2009 expose: Working life risks tend to persist (31.03.2010) -- Summary - Working in Finland: Work and work conditions 1997-2009 (23.03.2010)
• A Finnish company replaces Finnish electricians with underpaid and illegally compensated Estonians (21.03.2010)
• High Court dispenses justice to employees: Fujitsu has to pay almost MEUR3 to employees it dismissed illegally (10.03.2010)
• Modest pay rises for 88,000 government employees (JHL 10.03.2010)
• Harbour strike begins (04.03.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Transport dispute resolved; strike over (03.03.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Transport strike to stop about half of Helsinki regional bus transport and most refuse disposal (02.03.2010 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• TU and the Union of Machine Supervisors tighten up their cooperation (TU 25.02.2010)
• Two railway employee unions may join JHL (JHL 24.02.2010)
• TU and Suora plan to amalgamate (TU 24.02.2010)
• Trade unions emphasise that improving work places is vital for extending working careers (23.02.2010)
• Cooperation with the Finnish union PAM proves helpful to Estonian service sector employees (22.02.2010)
• End of the line for a number of traditional industrial sectors (15.02.2010)
• New collective agreements slightly reduce pay gaps in the municipal sector (08.02.2010)
• New agreement for the 30,000 salaried employees in the technology industry (TU 03.02.2010)
• Dispute at teleoperator DNA resolved (TU 03.02.2010)
• Bargaining round 2009-2010: Modest pay rises and "wait and see" tactics (29.01.2010)
• Government reaches out to Thai women (27.01.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Cooperation with Russia is not enough to save Finnish economy (26.01.2010 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Foreign berrypickers gain more rights (21.01.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• STX Finland workers strike at shipyard (21.01.2010 - link to the web site of BusinessWeek)
• Foreign workers in ethnic restaurants are often flagrantly underpaid (19.01.2010 - link to the web site of Helsingin Sanomat)
• Many work for just a few euros per hour - or even less (18.01.2010)
• Collective bargaining in the municipal sector: JHL wants minimum pay of EUR1,500 per month (JHL 15.01.2010)
• JHL in the state sector bargaining: Government employees have to be protected by binding regulations (JHL 15.01.2010)
• Few strikes over pay (15.01.2010 - link to the web site of Yle News)
• Dismissals doubled in 2009: SAK wants economic stimulus to continue (11.01.2010) 

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