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).
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