Trade unions condemn Finnish law restricting right to strike

A new law passed in Finland which restricts organised worker strikes may be in violation of international labour standards, according to ...

Finnish government restricts right to strike - IndustriALL Global Union

In violation of international labour standards, the Finnish parliament has approved new laws that effectively limits the right to strike in ...

Protect the right to strike in Finland | ITF Global

The Finnish unions are organising active opposition to these measures, including through cross-sectoral strikes. On the 1st of May, Finnish ...

Heli Puura, SAK: Limiting the right to strike clears the way for further ...

Employment Conditions Director Heli Puura of the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) notes that recently adopted restrictions ...

Controversial law restricting right to strike enters into force on Saturday

The controversial law restricting the right to strike, which was passed by the parliament on May 8 amidst strong protest by the trade unions, ...

Finland: Unions argue approved labour market reforms are "in ...

The law was passed despite extensive strike action by unions against the right-wing government's labour market reforms and proposed cuts to ...

Finland - EPSU

with workers and trade unions claiming a breach of the right to strike, and employers ... The restrictions on the right to strike of civil servants are.

IndustriALL: Finnish government restricts right to strike

Under the new laws, trade unions will now have to pay considerable fines if they organize a strike which the court later deems to be illegal. Individual workers ...

Finland's Right-Wing Government Is Trying to Crush Labor - Jacobin

Proposed labor reforms in Finland have sparked strikes, shutting down everything from ports to kindergartens. The right-wing government refuses to negotiate.

Attacks on trade union rights in Finland - the fight goes on

Strikes and protests have resumed in Finland this week as Finnish unions across the spectrum keep up the pressure on the Orpo government to withdraw its highly ...

Towards an EU-wide right to politically strike - European Parliament

... Union, read in the light of international human rights and labour law, protects ... the Finnish unions, coordinated by the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade ...

Finnish paper makers break national bargaining | IndustriALL

IndustriALL Global Union condemns the decision of the employers' group in Finland to break the long-standing sector bargaining, as it attempts to reduce ...

The Right to Strike | Fundamental Rights in Europe - Oxford Academic

The right to strike is centralized in the trade unions. Under the 1976 Codetermination Act,49 unions must notify their decision to cease work at least seven ...

The assault on labour rights in Finland - Social Europe

The first element of the reform package was legislation passed in May limiting 'political' strikes and solidarity actions. It stipulates ...

Individual Case (CAS) - Discussion: 1988, Publication - NORMLEX

... restrictions on the right to strike and the problems affecting collective bargaining. ... legal restrictions and prohibitions on trade union activities in Turkey.

The Right to Strike as Customary International Law

may sometimes constitute a considerable restriction of the potential activities of trade unions,” and that prohibitions on the right to strike are inconsistent ...

Individual Case (CAS) - Discussion: 2023, Publication - NORMLEX

We urge the Government to halt the introduction of new anti-trade union legislation and immediately undertake a thorough review of its law with the technical ...

FEDERATION OF OFFSHORE WORKERS' TRADE UNIONS AND ...

Even if the right to strike was to a certain extent protected by national law within the Contracting States, there was no consensus as to the extent of the ...

Trade Union rights - ETUC

We welcome the commitment by the UK government that the anti-worker anti-strike Minimum Service Levels legislation will be repealed through the upcoming ...

Finnish workers on strike to protest labour reforms, welfare cuts

Some 290000 Finnish workers began two days of strike action on Thursday to protest against the right-wing government's planned labour market ...