Federation of Professional and Managerial Staff (YTN)
The definition of Professional and Managerial Employees
- Work in expert positions requiring specialised knowledge and skills, or in supervisory positions in middle management.
- High degree of independence and responsibility in the work.
- Positions held by professional and managerial employees generally require a university or polytechnic degree, or a qualification obtained at work.
YTN
YTN is established as an advisory board in 1973, YTN – Federation of Professional and Managerial Staff was registered as an association in
With a membership of almost 120,000, YTN is Finland’s sixth largest trade union organisation.
As AKAVA’s collective bargaining organisation for the private sector, YTN is responsible for activities relating to negotiations and contracts for AKAVA’s field members in commercial, service and industrial sectors.
One of YTN’s prime objectives is to improve the earnings level and conditions of employment of professional and managerial employees by, among other approaches, strengthening contractual activities.
YTN’s affiliates
- Finnish Association of Academic Agronomists
- Akava Special Branches
- Akava's General Group AYR
- Union of Swedish-speaking Engineers in Finland
- Finnish Union of Experts in Science
- The Society of Finnish Professional Foresters
- The Finnish Union of University Professors (FUUP)
- Finnish Association of Architects, SAFA
- Finnish Association of Professional Coaches, SAVAL
- SEFE – Finnish Association of Graduates in Economics and Business Administration
- Finnish Pharmacists' Association
- Association of Finnish Lawyers
- Finnish Psychological Association
- Finnish Association of Occupational Health Nurses
- Association of Finnish Political Scientists, SVAL
- Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers, TEK
- Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers (FUURT)
- Finnish Business Polytechnic Graduates Association, TRAL
- Union of Professional Engineers in Finland, UIL
- Managers and Specialists in the Private Sector YTY
- Finnish Union of Environmental Professionals (FUEP)
YTN’s members by position of seniority 2009
Source: YTN’s labour market studies 2009
Salaried employee | 8 % |
Senior management | 4 % |
Management | 9 % |
Middle management, upper | 17 % |
Middle management, lower | 11 % |
Expert | 52 % |
YTN members by sector 2009
Source: YTN’s labour market studies 2009
Technology industry | 29 % |
Chemical industry | 5 % |
Forest industry | 3 % |
Food industry | 2 % |
Energy sector | 3 % |
Construction | 3 % |
Wholesale & Retail | 6 % |
ITC | 3 % |
Finance | 5 % |
Insurance | 2 % |
Engineer consulting | 8 % |
IT-services | 8 % |
| Auditing | 2 % |
| Real estate services | 1 % |
Other sector | 15 % |
How to become a member?
You can just join one of the YTN affiliates mentioned above. The easiest way is to click the address www.ytn.fi/liittyminen
The membership services and benefits and additional information can be found from the homepages of YTN affiliates.
YTN’s organisation
Administration
- Meeting of the Association
- Board of Management
- Working Committee
- Coordination group
Preparation groups
- Industrial policy group
- Training and labour policy group
- Pay and salaries group
- Legal group
- Social policy lobbying group
- Research group
- Communications group
- Field group
Background groups
- Background groups
- Food sector
- Energy sector
- Chemical sector
- Technology industry
- Forest sector
- Construction and real estate
- Planning & design
- Telecommunications
- TT service sectors
- LTY sector
- Wholesale & Retail
- Real estate services
- Translation sector
- Finance sector
- IT services
- Insurance sector
Workplace-level
- Company unions
- Contact persons
- Members
YTN’s main objectives
- Strengthening contract activities in all contracting sectors
- Identifying the personnel group of managerial and professional staff in all labour legislation
- Ensuring equal representation of personnel representatives
- Improving the operational framework for personnel representatives (use of time, access to information, authority to act)
- Comprehensive coverage of the application of Finland’s Working Hours Act and payments for working hours under the provisions of the Act
- Obtaining payment for work-related leisure-time travel
- Ensuring practical implementation of Finland’s Act on Cooperation Within Undertakings
- Promoting the use of working-hour banks
- Enhancing official monitoring of enforcement of Finland’s Working Hours Act
- Safeguarding the earnings level of managerial and professional staff
- Developing occupational safety and health
- Pursuing equitable tax policy, equality in unemployment benefits and social security, and improved employment protection
