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Month: December 2017

Google to finance development of Union project

28.12.2017 In headlines now, News

Helsinki (28.12.2017 – Heikki Jokinen) Cooperative Mediakunta received 50,000 euro from the Google fund to develop its business model for the billing work for freelance journalists and media professionals. The Union of Journalists in Finland set up the cooperative Mediakunta in January 2017 to help its members who are working on a gig-basis. The cooperativeRead More

Google funds Mediakunta development

23.12.2017 In headlines now, News

Google is providing the Finnish freelance journalists cooperative Mediakunta, which is linked to the UJF, with a grant of €50 000 to improve its online service, and help its community-based business model better serve members and become more international. Mediakunta was launched in January 2017, and uses the funding it obtains to develop the cooperative’sRead More

UJF: the public is entitled to know about military intelligence issues

20.12.2017 In headlines now, News

UJF president Hanne Aho has responded to events following the publication of an article by the national daily Helsingin Sanomat about a Defence Force secret military research centre, saying that the public has the right to know about intelligence matters. Aho said that the police raid on the home of the journalist who wrote theRead More

UJF awards for services to the union

18.12.2017 In headlines now, News

The UJF has presented Merit Badges to eight union members who have furthered the work of the union and journalism during the course of their media careers. They are joined by Mogens Blicher Bjerregård, president of the European Federation of Journalists, who received the award for his contribution to the development of the journalism movementRead More

President’s letter to UJF members

18.12.2017 News

Dear UJF member Many thanks for all the communications we’ve received during the course of the collective bargaining talks this autumn. You stayed the course and told us your what you thought. Our negotiators heard your messages. This autumn showed that the employers stick to the script set by their umbrella organization, the Confederation ofRead More

UJF council approves new collective agreements – some still pending

12.12.2017 In headlines now, News

Meeting at the beginning of December, the UJF council approved the outcomes of five of the collective bargaining agreements negotiated this autumn and now finalised. A further four are on the way, awaiting the conclusion of negotiations. One of the agreements is mired in a dispute over pay arrangements. In total the nine agreements coverRead More