News and media releases
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University collective agreement negotiations hit a wall with teaching hour caps
No agreement has been reached on the collective agreement for some 35,000 employees of universities. The negotiating parties last met on Monday, April 14th. Negotiations have been ongoing intensively since early February, and the contract period ended at the end of March. JUKO’s negotiators state that despite the intensive negotiations, no solutions have been found…
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The university collective agreement negotiations did not reach a solution within the deadline
The main contractual parties for employees JUKO, Pro, and JHL, as well as the employers’ Finnish Education Employees (often Sivista in Finnish), did not reach a negotiation result in the university collective agreement negotiations by the end of March. The collective agreement period in universities ended on March 31. Despite the end of t…
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Meeting of the Board of the Finnish Union of University Professors, 28 March 2025
The Board of the Finnish Union of University Professors met on 28 March 2025 and, among other things, approved the financial statements to be presented to the Council.
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Extraordinary Meeting of the Union Council on 27 March 2025
The Union Council discussed the state of the bargaining for Collective Agreement for State Civil Servants and Employees Under Contract and the state of the negotiations for a new Collective Agreement for Universities.
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Meeting of the Board of the Union on 21 March 2025
The Board of the Finnish Union of University Professors met on 21 March 2025 and discussed, among other things, the state of the negotiations for a new collective agreement for universities.
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The Spring Seminar 2025
The annual Spring Seminar of the Finnish Union of University Professors will take place in Helsinki on Friday, 25 April 2025, at 12.15-3.15pm. The theme of the annual seminar is Science-based growth and well-being. It is also possible to follow the event as a live webcast. The seminar will be held in Finnish, but the webcast will have automatically generated English subtitles.
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Professors’ blog
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Into darkness
It’s very hard to write about the current state of global science without getting sucked into the whirlpool of events in the United States that is perceived by most of our colleagues as nothing short of disastrous. However, so much has been written about it already. And by the time this blogpiece goes out some…
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The Right to be Wrong
Setting aside the growing threat to the scientific literature from outright fraud, wilful misinterpretation, undeclared conflicts of interest, low-quality peer review and malign pseudo- science, it is an inevitable fact that much of what is put into print today will turn out to be erroneous when revisited in the future. At the very least,…
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Acatiimi
Acatiimi is the member and stakeholder magazine for the Finnish Union of University Professors, the Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers (FUURT) and the Union for University Teachers and Researchers in Finland (YLL).