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Henkilöitä keskustelemassa pöydän ääressä.
A collective agreement for the staff of universities of applied sciences is under negotiation, and YTN is one of the negotiating parties.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/tek-involved-in-negotiating-a-collective-agreement-for-universities-of-applied-sciences-through-ytn

The government's budget session has been wrapped up. There are good things to say about RDI, both good and bad about the funding for education, and something to criticize in the discussion concerning the reduction of insurance contributions.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/juhani-nokela-three-points-about-the-budget-session-the-good-the-promising-and-the-bad

Tuulivoimaloiden pienoismallit
Universities need to place more emphasis on green skills.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/fresh-tech-graduates-have-insufficient-sustainability-skills

mies, nainen, valkoinen kypärä
We need more engineers to facilitate the sustainability transition. There is also a need not only for STEM skills, but also many other competencies, such as systems thinking and data expertise. However, as TEK's Graduate Survey reveals, there is a lot of variation in the level of sustainability skills between different fields of education.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/sustainability-transition-requires-more-engineers-broad-expertise-and-attractive-goals

Isä ja parikymppinen lapsi istuvat olohuoneen lattialla ja juttelevat.
Is your child studying at a higher education institution? Or is someone you know applying for higher education? Here are some tips from experts on how the folks back home can support students.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/be-there-for-a-student

Kättelevät ihmiset
General pay rises will increase salaries by a total of 5.5%. In May, full-time university employees will receive a one-off payment of at least €400.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/new-two-year-collective-agreement-for-34000-university-employees-approved

Tuomas Olkku istuu kannettavan tietokoneen ääressä, käsissään kynä ja vihko.
The competition for research grants is fierce. A grant foundation and a post doc researcher share some advice on how to write a good application.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/how-to-apply-for-research-grants

Jonathon Taylor seisoo lumisella kadulla.
Aiming to become even more international, universities are attracting teaching and research staff from abroad. Highly educated immigrants wonder if the career opportunities offered by Finnish universities are truly the same for everyone.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/finding-a-permanent-job-is-the-hardest-thing

Ihmisiä kävelee rappusissa
This Friday morning, an outcome was achieved in the pay rise negotiations concerning 34,000 university employees.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/pay-rise-deal-negotiated-for-34000-university-employees-on-friday-24-march

TES-neuvottelut
No agreement was reached for this year’s salaries. The trade unions and the Finnish Education Employers (FEE) association will meet again on 13 March. The negotiations will take a new turn then, because not only will salaries be negotiated, but the agreement provisions will also be on the table.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/negotiations-for-university-employees-salaries-continued-on-march-1

Ihmisiä katsomassa papereita toimistossa
The collective agreement negotiations concerning this year’s pay rises for 34,000 university employees ended for at least the time being last Friday, when Finnish Education Employers (FEE) said it did not consider there were any grounds for agreeing on new negotiation dates.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/negotiations-on-this-years-pay-rises-stall-employee-side-waiting-for-finnish-education-employers-initiative-to-continue

Daniel Valtakari, TEK
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.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/blog-research-background-is-useful-in-lobbying

Kättelevät ihmiset
“The university employers now stand out as family-friendly employers and pioneers of the family leave reform,” says Tarja Niemelä, the chairperson of the JUKO University Advisory Board.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/collective-agreement-reached-for-university-employees-includes-most-progressive-family-leave-reform-on-the-labour-market

Ihmisiä katsomassa papereita toimistossa
We will issue further information on the content of the agreement when all parties’ governing bodies have deliberated it. The JUKO University Advisory Board and JUKO board will deliberate the result on Thursday.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/result-negotiated-for-university-employees-early-on-sunday-juko-board-to-discuss-result-on-thursday

esitelmä
University employees no longer have a valid collective agreement as of today, Friday 1 April. In such circumstances, the universities will continue to apply the terms of the old collective agreement until a new one enters into force.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/no-result-yet-in-university-collective-bargaining-negotiations-continue-today

Opiskelijat, kävelevät, portaat, Aalto yliopisto
Notice has been served to terminate the universities’ current collective agreement, effective 31 March. If a negotiation result is not reached before that date, university employees will be without a valid collective agreement as of 1 April.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/juko-the-university-negotiation-parties-are-still-seeking-resolution-on-several-questions

Kahden henkilön keskustelua aiheesta työsuhde ja laki
Surveys by the Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers show time and again that fixed-term contracts are the number one reason for ill-being at work. Keeping employees on fixed-term contracts year after year wears them out and is totally unnecessary.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/fixed-term-contracts-an-eternal-question

nuori aikuinen laskee laskua
– The negotiations are now proceeding to an intense phase in which we begin to thrash out an overall solution, says Katja Aho, JUKO’s head of collective bargaining for the university sector.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/pace-picking-up-in-university-collective-agreement-negotiations

Kuvituskuva opiskelijoista Aalto-yliopistolla
JUKO wants to develop pay and the remuneration system through a longer-term salary programme, remove bottlenecks and promote equality.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/university-collective-agreement-negotiations-family-leave-under-discussion-again

Opiskelija, luento, opiskelu
In the present university collective bargaining negotiations, we are negotiating on university employees’ working conditions and pay rises. We want the universities to be competitive, attractive workplaces that promote a positive type of working life.
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https://www.tek.fi/en/news-blogs/we-are-the-university