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Katja Lehto-Komulainen to lead FinUnions

| 21.5.2019

Katja Lehto-Komulainen, LL.M. has been appointed Director of the FinUnions bureau in Brussels for a fixed term of... Read more

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Parliamentary elections in Finland and STTK’s goals in government programme

| 13.5.2019

Finland held parliamentary election on 14 April 2019. Here are the the ten goals STTK sees the incoming... Read more

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Free summer job advisory service helps young employees in trouble at work

| 2.5.2019

The national labour confederations of Finland (SAK, Akava and STTK) are reopening their summer job information service today,... Read more

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Majority of new MPs are union members

| 25.4.2019

Trade union members are once again well represented among the members of the Finnish parliament. A majority of... Read more

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Fragmentation of working life turns organising rate down

| 2.4.2019

The fragmentation and precarisation of working life affects trade union membership, too. According to a new study union... Read more

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Lars Bach Jensen: The Danish Green Transition

| 26.2.2019

Lars Bach Jensen, Head of International Energy and Climate Policy, Dansk Industri Being a small and open economy,... Read more

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Finnish employee must work 34 days to reach a single day’s pay for CEO

| 18.2.2019

February 18 was the moment at which the average private sector employee earnings of this year surpassed a... Read more

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Grave neglect revealed in privatised elderly care – unions demand immediate measures

| 31.1.2019

Gross neglect is thought to be the reason for one death in privatised elderly care and this has... Read more

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Labour costs for an employer in Finland 34.2 Euro per hour in 2016

| 8.12.2018

Labour costs in Finland were, on average, 34.2 Euro per hour in 2016, according to Statistics Finland in... Read more