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Up to 27 jobs to be cut by introducing a joint editorial office for three local newspapers
The availability of multicultural news and current affairs programmes for immigrants in Finland are so few and far between within the mainstream news channels, immigrants have launched initiatives to plug the gap.
After several years of providing indispensable service which appears not have been much appreciated by the public, and poor treatment by employers, Finnish audio-visual translators have launched a campaign drive to mobilize workers in the sector to fight for better working conditions as well as raise public awareness of their work.
The collective agreement negotiation over programming work at the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) has had a successful outcome. Programming workers association of YLE (YOT) has examined the results and recommended the Board of the Union of Journalist in Finland (UJF) to accept the agreement.
ILO:n kurssi järjestetään elokuussa, ilmoittautuminen Juhannukseen mennessä.
A high court has rejected an application by freelance journalists to appeal against a decision of the market court in connection with their agreement dispute with Sanoma News.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has marked this year's World Press Freedom Day with a special focus on the situation of journalists in Iran where dozens of journalists remain behind bars, newspapers closed and where the IFJ affiliate, the Association of Iranian Journalists has had its office closed down.
The economic recession has generated a hike in labour contract disputes between Finnish journalists and their employers, leading to an increased number of journalists seeking legal aid from their union. However, less than half of the disputes end up at the bench.
Finnish journalists in the print media have had a quicker rise in salaries over the past two years compared to their colleagues in other sectors, according to statistics gathered by the Confederation of Finnish Industries. But freelance journalists have seen their salaries stagnate within the same period.
Project of the Finnish Foundation for Media, Communication and Development (VIKES) to support trade union building among journalists in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
The Union of Journalists in Finland joins IFJ in demanding a probe into Iraq media deaths after US Army film exposes killing of unarmed civilians and journalists
Programmes are often produced without taking into account that a viewer might be a refugee or an asylum seeker who has come from elsewhere and might feel hurt by the way that the television programme presents his or her culture, according to a study published here this month by the University of Tampere.
The Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) still faces an uncertain future over the source of its funding as parliamentary groups Tuesday failed to reach an agreement on how to finance the state broadcaster.
Nearly a fifth of Finnish journalists who received income-related unemployment benefits last year were young journalists in their 30s.
As media houses cut back on resources more and more journalists are pressed into working overtime without commensurate compensation.
Magazine publisher Aller Media is once again attempting to force its freelancers to accept cut-rate contracts. This is in clear breach of the collective freelance agreement entered into with the Danish Union of Journalists (DJ). The dispute could end with a blockade by freelancers..
The Market Court dropped the complaints. The Union will appeal.
A victory for the copyright protection of journalists and media workers was won at the end of last year when Finland’s Minister of Education announced that the government would not incorporate an employment-based copyright presumption provision into the copyright act.
Some 60 people took part in the conference held by the UJF and the Muuttoliikkeessä-project in Helsinki at the end of September.
The Union of Journalists in Finland expressed astonishment at the verdict of the Court of Appeal upholding the contumacy verdict against photographers from the magazine Suomen Kuvalehti.
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