This article is translated by Copilot.
Negotiations by the Federation of Professional and Managerial Staff (YTN) have continued with the Technology Industries of Finland for the three aforementioned agreements since mid-September. The negotiations have not yet led to the renewal of the agreements, although there has been some progress on textual issues. There has been no substantial negotiation on the level and form of salary increases, partly because the resolution of the Industrial Union's labor dispute at the conciliator's office has not progressed.
Since it appears that the normal negotiation process will not bring the desired result for YTN, this week will see the start of so-called conciliation board work for the technology industry and the consulting sector agreements. The conciliation board is defined in these agreements. Each party appoints one representative to the board, and a chairman is also selected for the board. The conciliation board must be given at least two weeks to find a solution, which practically means that the board's work will end after Christmas. The provisions of the afore-mentioned agreements, including industrial peace, remain in force until the conciliation board's work is considered complete.
The agreement for the architectural design sector, which is important for TEK members, also ended in November. Negotiations with the Association of Finnish Architects' Offices (ATL) and the Service Sector Employers (Palta) have proceeded fairly quickly on textual issues. However, the threshold for renewing the agreement is that it is unlikely to be possible to reach an agreement on salary increases as long as there is no so-called breakthrough solution at the national level.
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TEK and other Akava unions conduct collective agreement negotiations jointly under the negotiation organisation YTN. In practice, YTN's negotiators are experts from Akava unions, such as TEK.
Textual issues are basically all other issues apart from salary increases. Textual issues overall include, for example, holiday compensation, working hours and paid family leaves. Not all textual issues are under negotiation on each negotiation round.