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More than half of the gender pay gap in tech is unexplained

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Owain's corner: The battle to save Finland’s reputation

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Collective Bargaining in Autumn 2024 ‹
Collective agreement negotiations have started or are about to start in sectors where many TEK members are working. Read more about the negotiations!

What is TEK?

TEK is a trade union for academic engineers and architects in Finland.

In Finland, trade unions work closely with the employers’ organisations to ensure that the Finnish market is open, fair and competitive. On a personal level, this means that we negotiate the framework for employment conditions and salaries on your behalf, to make sure you have fair working conditions.

We are a professional organisation that supports you in your career. By becoming a member, you will have access to our experts, who can advise you on any issues regarding your work life in Finland. Through our services, we will help you make informed choices in all aspects of your career, from how to get your foot in the market to navigating Finnish work life.

Get to know our services in more detail below.

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Services and benefits

As a TEK member you have access to the best tools for building your career, as well as valuable benefits!

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Work life in Finland

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How can we best serve you?

We offer a wide range of membership services to support you at different stages in your career. 

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If you're not yet a TEK member, join now!

Latest news and blogs

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Manu Kiiskilä seisoo ständinsä edessä EUCYS-kilpailussa.
Students
News article

EUCYS award goes to Manu Kiiskilä

Manu Kiiskilä, a student at Tampereen lyseon lukio high school, won the Special Donated Prize at the EU Contest for Young Scientists for his work on computer vision. The EUCYS contest took place in Poland in September.
Petro Julkunen katsoo kameraan.
Work life
News article

Employee representative 2024: Petro Julkunen, Chief Physicist at KUH, Professor at University of Eastern Finland

An employee representative helps staff members with matters relating to their employment. They also act as negotiators and mediators between employees and employers. Here we introduce one of them.
People of different genders working at the same table
Work life
News article

More than half of the gender pay gap in tech is unexplained

The pay gap between men and women in the technology industry has hardly narrowed at all in more than a decade. This is shown by the 2023 Labour Market Survey conducted by the Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK.
Owain Hopeaketo
Society
Blog post

Owain's corner: The battle to save Finland’s reputation

You can all make a difference, and change the way our industry is treating foreign talent. You can battle for Finland’s reputation.
Work life
News article

Negotiations on salary increases have already started

Engineers are looking for a 5% increase, but higher figures have also been reported in competing countries. TEK’s aim is to increase the purchasing power of its members.
Johtoryhmä pöydän ääressä
Organisation
News article

TEK's agents of change

TEK’s current management team has been steering the day-to-day activities of the organization for almost five years. This is how their work has changed TEK.
Kuvassa kuva työtodistuksesta ja ihmisestä.
Legal
News article

The seven rules of the certificate of employment

The main purpose of a certificate of employment is to tell an external party, such as an employer hiring a new employee, where and when the job-seeker has worked before and what they have done.
Ihmisiä pöydän äärellä
Technology
News article

Fame and glory to technology experts – are you one of them?

TEK and TFiF are honored to call attention to experts in the fields of technology and natural sciences and their innovations. We will reward top experts with three new awards in spring 2025 – which of them would suit you best?
Mies katsoo puhelinta ja nojaa seinään.
Work life
News article

Tell us your workplace and stay informed on collective agreement negotiations

It is important for us to know where you work so that we can best represent you in the collective agreement negotiations, keep you informed on the progress of the negotiations and, if necessary, ask for your opinion.