TEHY and local authorities accept pay deal to avert mass resignations by nurses
Nursing staff to receive 22-28% wage increases over four years. Helsingin Sanomat, November 20, 2007 On Monday afternoon, the council of Finland's Union of Health and Social Care Professionals (TEHY)...
View ArticleMunicipal Taxes Could Go Up Following Nurses' Pay Hike
YLE, November 20, 2007 Over 100 municipalities will have to raise taxes to pay for Tehy members' salary hikes, estimates Risto Parjanne, director of the Commission for Local Authority Employers. He...
View ArticleEmployers: Tehy Exaggerating Pay Raises
YLE, November 20, 2007 The Commission for Local Authority Employers (KT) says that the Union of Health and Social Care Professionals (Tehy) is overestimating the pay raises included in the nurses'...
View ArticleVanhanen Criticises Nurses' Tactics
YLE, November 21, 2007 Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen has warned unions not to threaten the welfare of the public through industrial action. He added the nurses' pay dispute had lowered the government's...
View ArticleNurses: contract accepted, resignations cancelled, disagreement on...
Helsingin Sanomat, November 21, 2007 It appears that Monday's settlement between the Union of Health and Social Care Professionals (Tehy) and the Commission for Local Authority Employers (KT) did not...
View ArticleFinnish academics at odds over Tehy pay deal
NewsRoom Finland, November 21, 2007 Two prominent Finnish labour law professors hold diametrically opposed views as to whether the pay deal negotiated by the Union of Health and Social Care...
View ArticleTehy Chair Disappointed by Employers' Talk on Pay Hikes
YLE, November 21, 2007 Jaana Laitinen-Pesola, the chair of the Union of Health and Social Care Professionals (Tehy), said she's disappointed by recent statements made by the Commission for Local...
View ArticleFinnish PM blasts nurses' union
NewsRoom Finland, November 22, 2007 Matti Vanhanen (centre), the Finnish prime minister, on Wednesday faulted the Union of Health and Social Care Professionals (Tehy) for what he said was an...
View ArticleParliamentary Clash Over Nurses' Tactics
YLE, November 22, 2007 Parliamentary question time was dominated on Thursday by a fierce torrent of opposition comments over the government's action during the nurses' dispute. Parties on the...
View ArticleFilipino nurses anticipate seeing serious but not angry Finns
The 20 nurses recruited from the Philippines by the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa will arrive here today. Hwlainfin Sanomat, April 15, 2010 The long-awaited group of 20 Filipino nurses is...
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