Negotiations for security guards now starting
Collective agreement negotiations for security guards begin this week. The security sector is the last of the large PAM sectors where working and pay conditions have not yet been agreed.
Many guards have already been asking when the agreement negotiations in the sector will begin, since in the other large PAM sectors - retail, the hospitality sector and the facility services sector – agreements have already been reached. In the guarding sector the negotiating task gets going now, Monday 9 April at midday. The first negotiating meeting is scheduled to be an exploratory session.
The reason why the guards’ negotiations are taking place later than others is that the collective agreement for the sector expires later than other sectors, only at the end of April. The other negotiating party is Service Sector Employers Palta.
Negotiating results have also been reached already in small Palta sectors, but they are still being considered by the unions’ governing bodies. Negotiating results have been achieved in the customer service and telemarketing sector, previously known as the telephone service and call centre sector. Results have also been achieved in the golfing sector, the bingo sector, the photofinishing sector and the household appliance and equipment servicing and service machine sector. The negotiating results will become collective agreement if both PAM’s and Palta’s governing bodies approve them.
Negotiations for the removal services sector and the copying and printing sector are not scheduled for this week; negotiations in these sectors will start next week.