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23.5.19 – Art & Culture Union’s Day

03/05/2019 Info G.A.P. Comments 0 Comment

Welcome to Globe Art Point’s Great Art & Culture Union’s Day Event on 23.5.2019 at 15:00-18:20 at the Helsinki Central Library Oodi! Artists’ Unions Fair will present the Finnish four major artists’ unions: 1. Theatre and Media workers TeMe (communication officer Anne Saveljeff); 2. Art and Culture Professionals’ Trade Union TAKU (organization coordinator Sini Myllyniemi); 3. Actor´s Union (managing director Elina Kuusikko); 4. Finnish Musicians’ Union (freelance-agent Jaakko Kämäräinen). Artists and cultural workers from the fields of performing arts, visual…

THE FINNISH TRADE UNION SYSTEM

18/05/2018 Info G.A.P. Comments 1 Comment

THE FINNISH TRADE UNION SYSTEM A trade union is an organization within the framework of a trade union movement which seeks to defend and improve workers’ working conditions. The trade union usually consists of people in the same industry (eg nurses) or industry (eg workers in a glass factory) or persons in the same training (eg engineers). The trade union consists of workers’ associations or trade unions. Trade unions negotiate collective agreements with the employers’ side. In Finland, trade…