The SAK journal, 'Palkkatyöläinen', celebrated its 70th anniversary on the 29th
of November this year. Ten issues of the journal are published per annum and its
circulation is 25,000. It is delivered to shop stewards, health and safety officers, trade
union activists and both national and local politicians.The Editor, Eero Kosonen,
describes the journal as a labour market periodical. He says that its main objective is to
report on changes in the world of work and to operate as the mouthpiece of the workforce,
all the way from the shop floor to the trade union leaders and politicians.
'Palkkatyöläinen' was not the first journal in Finland to be published especially for
the trade union movement. The predecessor of SAK, the Finnish Workers' Union, published
its own journal from the year 1908.
Leena Seretin
Free lance -journalist
