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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, n…
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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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Media releases
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If implemented, the layoffs at Åbo Akademi University would be a wet rag on the face of the university community – they would not bring a long-term solution
The change negotiations at Åbo Akademi University have ended in disagreement. According to the negotiation proposal, the university is considering an organisational reform and the redundancies of approximately 50 people in order to balance the finances in the longer term, as well as laying off the entire staff in order to reduce costs of …
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Professor of the Year 2025 Heidi Kuusniemi prevents satellite positioning jamming
The Finnish Union of University Professors has chosen Heidi Kuusniemi, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vaasa, as Professor of the Year for 2025. The nomination was announced at a Union event during the Science Forum in Helsinki on Thursday, 9 January 2025. The award amount for the Professor of the Year is…
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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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