The nurses have demanded other higher salary increases. Some of the union leaders have rejected the pairing of wage increases and tax cuts already in the past.
Ministry of Finance (VM) head of office Juha Majanen plans to meet the leaders of the trade unions to discuss with them the situation of the autumn collective bargaining negotiations. According to him, the different parties should now be able to look in the same direction when it comes to salary solutions.
‘Based on the publicity, the preconceived notions are pretty wild,’ he tells STT.