We the Union

Saturday 27th August

9:30      Registration and morning coffee
10:00    Welcome

• Riikka Vasama (Industrial Union)
• Janne Laulumaa (Workers’ Educational Association WEA Finland)

10:15    Key note speech: Conditions of employment and fundamentals of employment law

• lawyer Niku Hinkka

11:00     Workshops (1st round, participants choose one workshop for each round)

• Achievements of the trade union movement (Petri Partanen)
• Disassemble false statements (Mikko Siljander)
• Become an union activist! (Inari Juntumaa)
• Working safely and smoothly in a multilingual environment (Janne Laulumaa)

12:30    Lunch
13:30    Workshops (2nd round)
15:00    Coffee
15:30    Summary of the day
19:00    Dinner

 

Sunday 28th August

9.30 Industrial union – your very own union (Osmo Rantanen)

• Know you union and make most of your membership. Get acquainted with both membership benefits and participation opportunities.

10.45 Worker protected by the union – a happy worker (Riikka Vasama)

• Become aware of the terms and conditions of your work. Learn how to prevent difficulties and what to do if you face problems at work. 

12.00 Lunch
13.00 New union service - Hermes mobile app! (Anu-Hanna Anttila, Henri von Adlerkrone, Anna Funck)

• Take part in evaluating and developing a pilot app on reliable information about Finnish work life.

14.30 Summary of the day, feedback
15.00 Coffee