Why should you be a member of ITTE and Research Professionals?

Research Professionals is a specialist in lobbying researchers, teachers, librarians, and other research staff in universities and other academic institutions.

It is a party to the nationwide collective bargaining contracts and local salary contracts in Finnish academic workplaces. Research Professional’s shop stewards monitor that these contracts are obeyed. Other trade unions do not have similar possibilities to take care of salary matters and other benefits for those who work in universities. Read more from the web pages above. ITTE is the local association of Research Professionals that operates in Eastern Finland, at the University of Eastern Finland campuses in Joensuu and Kuopio, for example.

How to apply for membership?

To apply for membership you should fill out Research Professional’s Membership form from the page Join the union.

For local branch choose Research Professionals of Eastern Finland (ITTE).

Trade union dues

The easiest way to pay dues is by power of attorney so that your employer deducts the sum from your salary and pays it to the union.

If you want your employer to automatically deduct the membership fee from your salary, you can make an agreement at E-services My information -> Authorisation. If your employment information is not up to date, you will need to Report new job first.

Print the form. Fill in as local branch number: 005, and as Basis of the amount 1%. You should sign the form authorizing the payment and send to the payroll of your employer. At UEF it is CERTIA (Check Intranet for the correct address).

If you work on a personal grant or you are not working at the moment, you should pay the due yourself by bank transfer, which Research Professionals sends to you. Then the due is 8€ per month.

Notices

ITTE’s board handles the membership application and you will join the ITTE mailing list, where we inform members about ITTE’s current affairs.

If your email address changes, please send mail to ITTE’s member secretary. You may also contact other ITTE board members and shop stewards in issues related to ITTE or if you are facing problems at the workplace where you think a union opinion or assistance would be helpful.

Unemployment insurance

The members of FUURT have unemployment insurance in The Unemployment Fund for Education and Science.