Conversation

After a 112 days long strike, the workers at multinational UPM in Finland lost.

The Paperworkers' Union accepted the State mediator's proposal whereby the traditional single collective agreement model gets replaced by agreements per business unit instead, enabling UPM to play one of the five units against the others in negotiations.
During the strike, which started January 1, UPM for a long time refused even talking to its workers but instead turned to the courts to end the strike, whereby it got the strike partially banned, as well as using its multinationality to undercut its workers through using products made by workers in its factories in other countries instead.