Welcome to Finland and to working at a Finnish workplace. Starting work in a new country brings many unfamiliar practices, and no one expects you to understand them all straight away. Your trade union can offer information, advice and support throughout your employment, writes TEK's Daniel Valtakari.

On a European level, I want to empower personnel to participate more in decision-making that concerns them. In terms of university collaboration, I already have my eyes set on this winter’s salary negotiations in academia.

Forcing early career researchers into fixed-term employment and imposing too much responsibility on them for the continuity of research funding do not make universities more attractive as employers.

I attended the congress of IndustriALL Global in September. IndustriALL Global is a global union federation representing workers in the industrial sector.

The university should not consider teaching positions as a safe haven for those who are not making great progress on the professorship track. Having a tenure track for teachers brings clarity and equal treatment to the work of teaching staff.