Industrial Union
The Industrial Union is Finland’s largest trade union for manufacturing, representing employees in 35 collective bargaining areas across three broad sectors: the chemical sector, the technology sector and the wood products sector.
Members
Industrial Union members work at a wide range of workplaces in various industrial sectors, including the technology industry, chemical industry, mechanical forest industry and woodworking industry. They are employed in various capacities by small and large businesses operating in manufacturing, servicing, logistics and other industrial fields. The union also organises employees working in such diverse operations as automotive dealerships, laundries, forestry businesses, gardening, and agriculture.
Chemical sector
- Car retail and engineering branch
- Motor vehicle tyre branch
- Fiskars Finland Oy Ab employees
- Brushmaking branch
- Delivery personnel
- Precious metals industry
- Chemical basic industry
- Footwear and leather industry
- Rubber industry
- Glass and ceramics industry
- Glazing, construction glazing and glass processing branch
- Media and printing branch employees
- Plastics and chemical products industry
- Direct mail delivery
- Textile and fashions branch
- Textiles services branch
- Oil, gas and petrochemical products industry
Technology sector
- Ore mines industry
- Sheet and industrial insulation branch
- Technical service and maintenance
- Technology industry
Wood product sector
- Bio industry
- Log house industry
- Rural industries
- Mechanical forestry industry
- Manual work in forestry
- Machine work in forestry
- Carpentry industry
- Horticultural branch
- Forest tree nursery branch
- Fur production branch
- Peat production
- Landscaping branch
Joining the union
You can join the Industrial Union by completing an application for membership, either online or as a paper document provided at your workplace by a shop steward or other union contact person. You may also leave a callback request on the union website to complete the application form together by telephone.
The membership subscription fee for the Industrial Union in 2026 is 1.0 per cent of gross wages. Unemployment fund membership is free of charge for union members.
Student membership
Students studying at an institute or course centre of vocational education in a sector organised by the Industrial Union are eligible to join the union as student members.
Student membership is free of charge. Student members enjoy the same membership benefits as other union members, including travel insurance and leisure time accident insurance.
Jenniina Hotti (22)
Product assembly at Finland’s only bicycle factory in Hanko is largely a skilled manual process. There is no way that any robot could ever do Jenniina Hotti’s job.
- Jenniina has worked as a bicycle assembler at Helkama Velox since 2022.
- She is a member of the Industrial Union.
“I joined the union shortly after I began working here. Things progressed quite quickly when I took a keen interest in the union movement, and I am now chief shop steward at the plant. The most important job of a union is to stand in solidarity behind its members and give them confidence that support is available in various matters when needed. We are on good terms with our employer, and have always been able to discuss things openly.”
Collective agreements
The Industrial Union negotiates 35 national collective agreements and several collective agreements at individual enterprises.