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The Finnish postal workers union, PAU, which has been on strike during the last couple of weeks, has managed to get a satisfactory deal from their negotiations and also to convince the Government that their proposed new postal laws needed to be modified. PAU reports that because all the attention, including support from UNI Post & Logistics and affiliates, that they have also manage to change the postal service bill so that the USO product is going to be the first class mail and not the proposed second class mail. That means that it's not going to be possible to combine newspaper delivery and postal delivery so the threat of thousands of workers having to transfer to night work is not that big anymore. PAU also managed to get clauses in the collective agreement on restrictions on night work and subcontracting. PAU report to UNI Post & Logistics that overall everything worked out really great since they managed to change the new postal bill the way they wanted and they got a quite good collective agreement.



UNI sends congratulations to postal workers in Finland for standing up for their rights and their solidarity to achieve a decent contract and to highlight their concerns over the new postal bill and postal market liberalisation. Thanks also to those UNI affiliates who sent PAU Solidarity messages.