On January 31, the Helsinki Court of First Instance pronounced a verdict in favor of a company handing out flyers and free newspapers, which applied a collective agreement signed with a union considered as “yellow.” The dispute was between an employees and his employer, Helsingin Jakelu-Expert Oy, a subsidiary of JANTON Group.
The distribution of flyers (without an address) and free newspaper employs 15,000 people, of which 8,000-9,000 regularly. These employees are mostly students and foreigners. The sector used to be covered by a collective agreement that, for the employees part, answered to the union organizing, among others, workers at the Finnish Post (ITELLA). On top of this firm, flyers are distributed by regional companies, most of which are JANTON subsidiaries.
In 2009, a new trade union (SME) and a...
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