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Society

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

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Management / supervisory work

Anssi Rantanen: The World's Best Teams - what can we learn from them?

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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!

Employment and law

Job search and career

Salary

Unemployment insurance

Work life in Finland

Wellbeing

Membership benefits

Events and trainings

Research

Get to know all services and benefits

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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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Graduated

Job seeker

Unemployed

Entrepreneur

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

Latest news and blogs

Henkilöitä labrassa.
Students
Blog post

Five reasons why a summer job is your gateway to Finnish working life

The main reasons for getting a summer job might seem to be the same everywhere. In Finland however, they are even more important, as explained by TEK Project Manager Owain Hopeaketo.
Henkilö keltaisessa paidassa käyttää tietokonetta
Work life
News article

Only one in three over 50 believe they would find a job if they became unemployed

CEO of TEK Jari Jokinen: Are older workers hazardous waste or the most skilled employees?
Kuvassa on TEKin toiminnanjohtaja Jari Jokinen.
Organisation
News article

TEK’s Jari Jokinen to lead Association of Nordic Engineers

Jari Jokinen, CEO of the Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK, has been elected president of the Association of Nordic Engineers, an organisation that promotes the interests of engineers in the Nordic region. Jokinen wants to focus more attention on influencing EU policies.
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.