the industry association and the technology industry negotiations on wages and working hours sought a solution tomorrow.
the industry association and the technology industry collective bargaining agreements expire on Thursday 31. October, but at the end of August starts in the negotiations, inter alia, wage increases have not even been discussed.
collective bargaining has been slowed down by controversy in the summer of 2016 entered into competitive contracts for 24 additional hours, the fate of the.
the additional hours worked take hard for already three years ago, just industrial union. They ended up recording in a separate additional protocol, which was terminated. This industry association also did already last autumn.
Agreement tomorrow is uncertain
Employees of the representative industrial association president Riku Aalto hope a solution tomorrow, but the omens are not promising.
the expected value at this stage is that tomorrow is not necessarily the outcome of negotiations are, a Wave of anticipation.
the technology industry labour market the director of Minna Helle according to the rush comes, if tomorrow is going to be suitable.
– All the big issues are still open, unfortunately, and it makes the timetable particularly challenging, the Heat estimates.
the extension has options for
the employer side stresses that the working hours and wage increases associated with each other.
– working hours and salary the solution pass through our thoughts go hand in hand, since both relate to the important objective of ensuring competitiveness. If the working hours would remove the workers party by the way, so it would mean that salary increases should bargain, Heat describes the negotiations setups
the scorching Heat, according to technology industry’s working relationship with a variety of options, and the technology industry have not stuck to any one option.
Helle fighting workers party suggestions 24 extra work hours to solve the central organization level.
the International market operating companies in need of solutions that work just for them and their employees. And this sort of solutions, all of which should make for example, the working relationship exactly the same way, so they don’t really work anymore. They are gone the world, the Heat against centralized solutions.
Riku Aalto: the additional hours will not negotiate
Employees view of 24 hours of additional work time will not negotiate.
Well, no. We don’t think. When that agreement was made three years ago, so it was found that it is a three year fixed-term contract and we do not have the conditions correctly in any other way the agreement currently agreed to or bend. The field message is so strong this 24 hours in relation to that, yes, these negotiations card in this sense are off the table, a Wave of stress.
the Wave in the opinion of employers, the requirements are this round in general pretty hard.
–They are related to the general cost level. They have performances there cost in order to weaken or in this case our members ‘ salaries to reduce in one way or another, working to increase and so on. Yes this content of presentations is numerous in the negotiating table, Wave tell.
wage increases raised the end of negotiations
Discuss wage increases remains the final stage of negotiations.
Just think of the Austrian wage settlement, which I think was something like three, four percent range. Competitor countries have done about two, three per cent solutions, some even bigger solutions, Wave bracket and set a goal of the workers purchasing power security.
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