Do we want to stick to the collective agreement system, asks mediator Jukka Ahtela in his report.
The labor market there seems to be no quick way out of the escalated situation. Warnings 1.–2. It has rained from several unions about the political strikes to be organized in February. On Monday, the Akava federations will announce their intentions. At the same time, trade unions from the ranks of the government are called mafia, among other things.
Minister of Labour Arto Satonen (kok) sought in published on Sunday in an opinion piece to soften the mood, assuring that the export-led labor market model pursued by the government does not condemn female-dominated and public sector sectors to an “eternal wage pit”.
Chairman of Akava Maria Löfgren replied the message service to Satose in X stating that the arguments do not hold.
“When employers can count on the fact that not even a labor dispute will lead to a bigger increase in export industries, the incentive to negotiate disappears,” Löfgren summed up.
Concerns have already arisen among those observing the labor market that the current direction will eventually lead to a complete head-on collision between the government and the ay movement.
The assessment is that the government has made the plans it wrote according to the model of EK and Suomen Yrittäjie a question of prestige and the ay-liike will set its machinery in motion, after which we will continue on the path of battles until the end. The fear is that the consequence could even be the crumbling of the collective agreement system.
To Tampere docent of social policy at the university Fairy tale Ojala also does not consider the government's line correct, but calls for a more constructive approach to the ay movement.
“The coldness with which the government ignores the wage earner side of the labor market is confusing,” says Ojala to STT.
In Ojala's opinion, the government is on the wrong track when it tries to reshape the labor market model through labor legislation instead of negotiation. It only worsens rigidities in the labor market, Ojala warns. The promised employment effects are again in danger of remaining promises.
“Employment impact estimates are based on a very small and fragile basis.”
In Ojala's opinion, reforming the labor market would require a parliamentary committee lasting two electoral terms, based on research data, like the social security committee.
“No institutional changes can be rushed. The government should now back down, because the package of measures is not even justified from the point of view of the national economy or employment.”
Previously Mediator who worked in executive positions at EK Jukka Ahtela has been thinking about the future, commissioned by Akava Works, the labor market center organization Akava's think tank in the report. In it, he presents his views on how Finland's labor market and collective agreement system should be developed in the future. The points of comparison are the models of the main competitor countries, Sweden and Germany.
“When the dust has settled a little, we really have to start thinking about the direction in which the Finnish labor market system will be developed, whether we want to be a Nordic country or whether we will slide into something else,” Ahtela tells STT.
“My central thought was that if and when I believe that we still want to stick to this collective agreement system, then now is the time to really start maintaining, maintaining and repairing it.”
In his role as a mediator, he does not take a position on the major labor market dispute that is currently underway.
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