Finnish postal operator Posti today announced a collective deal with unions that will end weeks of strikes that disrupted operations in some parts of the country.
Posti has been hit by a series of strikes in recent weeks after the postal and logistics union PAU launched industrial action following the expiry of a collective agreement at the end of October and in a dispute over the use of contract workers.
But the company said today that a new collective agreement had been reached and it would move rapidly to clear the delivery backlog that accumulated last week. In a service update, it said e-commerce items and other parcels that can be machine-handled are delivered almost as before, although some deliveries may still be slightly delayed this week.
“Our more than 900 outlets and 480 Parcel Points have served customers as usual the whole time, and customers have received a notice of arrival when their item is ready for picking up. Freight and supply chain solutions/warehousing services have operated normally.”
The main impact of the industrial action, which the postal operator described as illegal, was in central and southern Finland where some mail and parcel deliveries were affected. “If we look at Finland as a whole, 85% of Posti’s customers have received their mail on time or after a very small delay despite PAU’s strikes. For example, a major part of machine-sorted parcel items have been delivered to customers despite the strikes,” the company said.
