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The strike would start at the mills on Saturday
Should the strike materialise, UPM strives to meet customer demand through deliveries from its mills outside
“We have sent several invitations to the Paperworkers’ Union since last spring, but the invitations have not been accepted. The strike announcement is an exceptional procedure, as the announced strikes are taking place in businesses in which any negotiations have not started, apart from the UPM Lappeenranta Biorefinery. Thus, the strike announcement is given before even the negotiating objectives have been presented on either side. In our view, the negotiating parties have a duty to do everything in their power to reach an agreement before resorting to a strike or an external conciliation process. Now this has not happened,” says
“Despite the strike announcement, we continue to aim for business-specific collective agreements with the Paperworkers’ Union and begin negotiations as soon as possible, as we did with the
The Paperworkers’ Union has not excluded any work from the strike, not even tasks critical to the society, such as operating and maintenance of water treatment and power plants.
It is, however, important that the essential services for society are taken care of. Therefore, the businesses falling under the strike will pay additional fixed-term salary for those in businesses’ mill organizations who are looking after their duties during the strike. UPM’s businesses have communicated earlier the terms of employment that will be applied when the current national level CLA ends and there is no new agreement. The pay, together with the additional fixed-term salary will exceed that of the current, expiring CLA.
UPM has approximately 10,000 subcontractors in
Last week UPM and the
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