Agreement Sectors

Industrial Union concludes a total of 35 collective bargaining agreements. The collective agreement is the most important benefit for union members. Collective agreements specify the minimum terms of employment to be complied with regarding the work performed in the sector concerned.

Most of the union’s collective agreements are national and generally binding, which means that all enterprises in the industry must follow the agreement.

If you are employed or are studying in order to be employed in an industry covered by a Industrial Union’s collective agreement, you are welcome to join the union as a member or a student member.

Chemical sector
Industry/Collective agreement	Type of work covered
Car retail and engineering branch
Motor vehicle tyre branch	Tyre installations and retreading, some small mechanical tasks on vehicles in some parts of the businesses.
Fiskars Finland Oy Ab employees (company-based agreement)
Brushmaking branch	Brushmaking industry and industrial plants comparable to these.
Delivery personnel	Early-morning newspaper deliveries.
Precious metals industry
Chemical basic industry	Fertilisers, acids, salts, alkalis, explosives, protective devices, plant protection agents, gases, raw materials for paper, pharmaceuticals and paint industries, minerals, ore enrichments.
Footwear and leather industry	Shoes and shoe components, bags, furs, leather and leather product manufacturing.
Rubber industry	Motor vehicles tyres, various belts, hoses, coatings, rubber boots, rubber compounds.
Glass and ceramics industry	Glass and ceramic crockery, windscreens, glow bulbs, mirrors, sanitary ware, glass wool, flat and fibreglass, glass bottles, art glass, ovens.
Glazing, construction glazing and glass processing branch	Glass for window and balcony glazing, installation and glass cutting.
Media and printing branch employees	Tasks performed by employees and maintenance staff of graphic sector businesses, production tasks in electronic publishing systems.
Plastics and chemical products industry	Plastics, pharmaceuticals, colourings, paint, technochemical, reinforced plastics and roofing felt industries, latex production.
Direct mail delivery
Textile and fashions branch	Garments, textile products, fabrics, threads, socks, gloves, fur products, wire cloths, compressed felt, various nets, glass fibres, bonded-fibre fabrics (nonwoven fabrics).
Textiles services branch	Private laundries and dry cleaners.
Boatbuilding industry
Salaried employees in graphical industry
Oil, gas and petrochemical products industry	Refined oil products, natural gas, petrochemical industry products.

Technology sector
Industry/Collective agreement	Type of work covered
Ore mines industry
Sheet and industrial insulation branch
Technical service and maintenance
Technology industry

Wood product sector
Industry/Collective agreement	Type of work covered
Bio industry
Log house industry
Rural industries Protocol of signature 2023–2025 – rural industries	Employment contracts of workers employed by companies active in rural industries. For the purposes of this collective agreement, rural industries consist of agriculture, including the following:further processing of products mainly produced on the farm,preparation for commerce and sales as part of farm activity, or work in packaging plants for vegetables and other produce which operate as companies adjacent to farms and in which products of the owner companies are prepared for commerce and stored,field cultivation of vegetables, berries and special plants on the farm,farm relief work,poultry breeding and rearing farms,bee farms,fish rearing and breeding farms,riding stables, riding schools and amateur equestrian or racehorse stables,farm zoos,agricultural research institutes (private),rural tourism as auxiliary farm activity and animal boarding activity
Mechanical forestry industry
Manual work in forestry	Timber processing, forest management and forest improvement, other forestry work, timber floating and auxiliary duties.
Machine work in forestry	Mechanical forestry work, which includes: Timber felling, processing and handling using mechanical means outside industrial plants, transport of timber and wood chips, loading and unloading of timber in industrial plants, warehouses or harbours, digging and maintenance of forest drainage ditches, construction and maintenance of logging roads, silviculture and soil preparation, spreading of pesticides and fertilizers, harvesting of timber for energy use, recovery of timber-bound energy, chipping operations; as well as the installation, maintenance and reparation of machinery and equipment needed for the duties listed above, and the transport of such machinery and equipment between sites.
Carpentry industry
Horticultural branch Protocol of signature 2023–2025 – horticulture	Production of flowers, plants, vegetables, seedlings and mushrooms, and the renting and maintenance of blooming or green plants by grower-operated flower and plant shops and horticultural centres in which plant maintenance forms a significant part of the business activity, and the wholesale and retail sale of horticultural produce.
Forest tree nursery branch	Plant nursery duties. These are also taken to include other work related to the production activity in nurseries, such as seed extraction, collection of cones from standing trees, seed cultivation and forest improvement.
Fur production branch Protocol of signature 2023–2025 – fur production	Employment contracts between companies in the branch and their workers. The contract also concerns pelting centres and feed kitchens operating adjacent to fur farms.
Peat production
Landscaping branch Protocol of signature 2023–2025 – landscaping sector	Landscape construction, maintenance of landscaped and recreation areas, other duties in landscaping businesses and in a horticultural retail outlet operating adjacent to a landscaping business.