Last week, more than 7,000 workers of industries that included stainless steelmaker Outokumpu went on a three-day strike which was meant to expand to more than 10,000 industrial employees of companies such as Kone , Konecranes , Metso Outotec , Neste , Orion and SSAB between Feb. 8 and 10. The agreement is a key step in defining workers' pay rises in Finland as the tech industry has traditionally been considered a benchmark for other unions' demands. The Finnish Industrial Union said it had agreed to a two-year wage deal which will increase wages by 7% over two years for employees, including a one-off extra payment of 400 euros this year. The wage deal covers some 90,000 industrial employees, it said, adding a similar deal was reached for some 13,000 chemical industry employees. (Reporting by Anne Kauranen and Essi Lehto, editing by Terje Solsvik and Toby Chopra)
HELSINKI, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Wage disputes in the Finnish
technology and chemicals industries have been resolved, ending
the risk of labour strikes that were due to begin next week,
employers and a workers' union said on Sunday.
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