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23 January, 2006
Paperiliitto President Jouko Ahonen of Finland, ICEM’s Paper Sector Chairman, has questioned whether the current paper employers’ frenzy to contract out jobs is in the best interests of the companies’ own future financial health.
Because of the agreement that ended last year’s bitter lockout in the Finnish paper sector, mill-level negotiations on outsourcing are underway at some 30 enterprises, work capably done now by Paperiliitto members. Ahonen told the Finnish press that employers would be wise to consider that such practices might backfire on them in the future.
Paperiliitto President Jouko Ahonen
If mill-level talks on sub-contracting do not reach mutual accord, the matter goes before a national arbitration panel that includes Paperiliitto, the employers’ federation, and an impartial chairman. All final decisions by such a panel must be unanimous.