Industrial action by transport workers ensures full-time jobs

(Helsinki 22.11.2004 – Juhani Artto, Daryl Taylor) A strike by bus drivers over the rapidly growing use of part-time drivers ended yesterday after the Finnish Transport Workers’ Union approved an offer by the employers to give full-time jobs to all part-timers who prefer to drive full-time. The proposal also includes a promise not to increase the use of part-time drivers before the present collective agreement expires in January 2006.

The strike lasted for almost two weeks. Read more about the strike in Trade Union News in Finland.