Finland

Operaatio Ville - Operation Ville 7.10.2009

The youth members of STTK, the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions SAK, and of the Confederation of Unions for Professionals and Management Staff Akava organised a media event in Helsinki’s city centre during Wednesday’s World Day for Decent Work. During the campaign day in Helsinki, employment was sought for 26 year old Ville Karhu, who has been unemployed since June. Ville did in (...)

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Newspaper article / web article: LO-organisationerne i Norden: Krisen kræver fælles handling 7102009

Joint article by the five Nordic trade union presidents on World Day of Decent Work. LO-organisationerne i Norden: Krisen kræver fælles handling

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Seminar: Re-focusing on decent work 6 October 2009

On October 6 the Finnish IMF-EMF affiliates (Metalli, TU, UIL and TEK) will arrange a seminar where the afternoon session is dedicated to precarious and decent work, relating it to temporary and contract labour, the behaviour of TNCs, and the conditions of work of foreign workers in Finland. Participants of the seminar are shopstewards of big multinational companies like Nokia, Kone, Metso, (...)

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Workshop: Precarious Work and Trade Unions October 7, 2009

Continuous, full-time employment used to be the standard in the Finnish working life. Today, precarious work - part-time, temporary or self-employed - is becoming more and more common. What challenges precarization brings to the trade union movement? How to ensure worker’s rights in precarious employment? The workshop seeks to answer these questions in a dialogue between trade unionists and (...)

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