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Monday, 13th November, is the deadline for incomes policy bargaining
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Severe difficulties have been encountered during the current incomes policy bargaining process, as a result of which SAK has now set next Monday, the 13th November, as the deadline. Should the negotiations fail to produce a solution by that date which SAK finds satisfactory, SAK will, as a central organisation of trade unions, transfer the bargaining process to the individual unions.

– "The ball is now in the employers' court", stated Lauri Ihalainen on Wednesday, 8th November, after a meeting of the SAK Executive Committee.

According to Mr Ihalainen, the centralised incomes policy is on the verge of collapse, because of the employers' lack of any sense of social justice. The employers have offered a pay increase of 1.8% for the coming year, and in the view of SAK this offer is altogether inadequate. To date, the employers have not moved at all from the terms of their original offer.

Therefore, the negotiations between the organisations which represent the different social partners will be continued until Monday, the 13th November. Should this not produce an agreement, the bargaining will be restarted at a sectoral level, in January 2001 at the earliest. Most of the collective agreements, which are currently in force, will expire at the end of January 2001.

Leena Seretin
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