Exports regarding collective bargaining no progress has been made over the weekend, and the extensive strike start on Monday. Industry association and the technology industry dispute between the new negotiation date is not known, the kingdom of the mediator Anemone Piekkala make sure to STT under the lacquer.

on Monday began to strike on nine Industry sub-sector and more than 180 outlets and industrial union, trade union Pro and Senior staff YTN:no underground workers. With stops in a total of up to approximately 100 000 employees. Their cost is estimated at about 400 million in direct production losses.

Piekkala described the situation waiting for. He has already said earlier this week that conditions for negotiations before the strike of the beginnings longer. Industrial unions rejected on Monday the national conciliator’s settlement proposal työkiistassa in the technology industry with.

“As different views”

– Everything else is agreed except for the salary increase of percent. The views that are so far apart, Piekkala said stretching the word “so”.

He continued, that the perceptions of the situation are very different in terms of what the other negotiation party to apply for and what another considers the economic situation to give up.

Another sees the future rose more than another, would say it this way, Piekkala concludes.

Piekkalan lead in the most recent reconciliation was through an abundance of options for solutions. Now, both parties expect that something new will rise up.

Varnish sub-sector have technical service and maintenance, rubber industry, glass ceramic industry, ore mines, mechanical forest industry, plastic products industry and chemical products industry, chemical basic industry, technology industry, as well as oil-, gas – and petrochemical industry. YTN, Pro and Builders are organizing work stoppages on strike, participating in the workplace.

the three-day strike followed by a still Forest industry lockout, the duration of which is six days.

– stoppage of the idea is in some way mature to this situation, Piekkala said.

the Negotiations get stuck in the annoying

– the Situation is really unfortunate, technology industry labour market the director of Minna Helle comments.

the technology industry would have accepted a previous settlement offer, according to which wages would have risen by 1.6 per cent in the next two years, the working hours would have shortened the competitiveness of the contract amount, and conditions of employment, the impairments were incurred. The industry association rejected the proposal.

– the member companies 24 hour extended work hours has been important, but this key fact, we have come up against. However, we are not ready to make such agreements, which would take the Finnish labour cost competitiveness for the worse, the Heat said.

– Industry member attempts to two-thirds said that compared to the previous quarter, new orders have declined, so the economic outlook have deteriorated. In this situation the labour market should go patiently onward, in order to improve the conditions of the employment growth, said Helle.

Understanding is not enough abroad

Helle wrote earlier on Twitter, that the industry stop the effects appear immediately in Finnish everyday life such as the postal strike. The effect he estimated was still to extend to all, for the export industry employs according to him, directly and indirectly, more than 40 per cent of finns.

– Stop monetary losses have been calculated direct production loss of about 400 million euros, which does not include the longer-term disadvantage for the calculations. Especially international customers no sympathy for the fact that the varnish because of the orders came to them late, the Heat pointed out.

the technology industry and the industrial union dispute thus concerns the last settlement on the basis of mainly the salary increase percentages. The differences are large.

we’ve found so, let’s visit a number of public auctions, but we want our members purchasing power to grow. We have these discussions then in time, the mediator in the room when you get there in time, at some point back we go, the industry association president Riku Aalto notes to STT.

Latest on the lockout pushing the solutions

on Monday started a strike affecting most of the technology industry subject areas of the agreement, where the strike is going to total about 60 000 workers and staff. Industrial federal circuit in strikers is around 35 000.

the industry association president Wave to say that industrial alliance is a sub-sector of its ready to continue industrial action on Monday launched the strikes after.

during the three-day dodge general strike threatened to follow the Forest declared by the lockout, which are implemented 12. starting from December and lasting six days. The lockout is the employer half of the pressure means during the action. The lockout of the employers prevent the particular field of trade union workers from entering the work.

Also a Wave of noted the views of the recent reconciliation talks have been so divergent that the party advocated again convened before the strike begins.

We have this coming Friday board meeting and we will assess the situation there. Now it is useless to go to some speculation, but let’s look first at these three strike days and after the lockout and then forward, a Wave of comments.

the technology industry Helle told me she was ready for new negotiations.

Connections will be held and as soon as the conditions return to the negotiating table, so the technology industry is in full readiness for this. We hope for quick agreement, but yes, the situation pretty stuck now is, said Helle.

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