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Fri, 27 Nov, 2015 12:06:18 AM FTimes – STT Report, Nov 27  Prime Minister, Juha Sipilä spoke ine parliament on Thursday. Photo – Str / Lehtikuva. Prime Minister Juha Sipilä on Thursday termed the withdrawal of Transport Workers’ Union-AKT from the social contract an incomprehensible hassle.
“Sure this is incomprehensible hassle. This is far from the interest of the motherland,” Sipilä said in parliament.
AKT on Monday morning announced that it was completely withdrawing from the centralised social contract.
The decision to pull out was as a result of the Confederation of Finnish Industries’ (EK) announcement on Wednesday that it would not support centralised income policy after
April 2016, said the union. Instead, the union said, it will engage in union-specific contracts in 2017.
Sipilä on Thursday, however, did not give any assessment of the withdrawal’s impact. He said the effect of AKT’s pull out remains to be seen, but the agreement should be inclusive.
The premier said he was still awaiting an alternative offer from the labour market organisations, but the time is very limited.
If the offer does not arrive, the government will “go forward on another track,” he said, referring to the government’s own competitive package.
“The train moves on and the pace accelerates. It is always difficult to get off a moving train,” he quipped.
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