Municipal unions open to negotiations

Finland

The main public sector union, JHL, reports that unions in the municipal sector are willing to get involved in negotiations on a new framework agreement. Although the national agreement doesn't expire until October or even early 2014 in some parts of the public sector, JHL says that early negotiations may be important in order to facilitate local government reform with the government aiming to merge some municipalities. But any new agreement would have to take account of the fact that public sector pay has fallen back and to address the particular problems facing workers in the sector where there have been attempts for force temporary lay-offs.
[Read more at > JHL (EN)->http://www.jhl.fi/portal/en/news/archive/?bid=2670}

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