A humane working life and wage increases do not happen by chance or automatically – they require thousands of hours of work and negotiations. The union’s membership fee is an investment in your own and others’ fair wages.
When at least half of the workers in the sector belong to a union that has negotiated the collective agreement, everyone in the sector receives working conditions in accordance with that agreement. This is how it works: when we are many, we're able to take care of each other. For this to succeed, it requires that enough people belong to unions.
Pro is on your side. Because if not the union – who else?
#WhoElse
With Pro's membership fee, you get all this
Pro's most experienced experts will negotiate your collective agreement. That means better working conditions and better pay. With Pro, you will have an impact on almost every sector of Finnish society.
Your closest Pro contact is usually your workplace shop steward or occupational health and safety representative. In addition to your workplace shop stewards, you have Pro's experts and lawyers at your disposal. They have your back and are just a phone call away when things happen in your life. We support our members both in working life and in difficult situations that life throws at them. They advise and negotiate, make agreements and even defend you in court. Legal aid is free of charge and risk-free.
Personal advice on working life issues is worth its weight in gold. In working life advice, we reduce inequality, defend adequate wages, and strengthen fair workplace structures one call and message at a time.
Even the best individual performances are prepared together - let the crowd support you. As a Pro member, you will receive confidential advice from your personal career coach. This way, your skills will not be left half-way with your skillset and you will also be prepared for unexpected changes.
As a member of Pro, you can join the Unemployment Insurance Fund Pro if you so wish. You will receive earnings-related unemployment support when its conditions are met. The processing times of Unemployment Insurance Fund Pro have been studied to be the fastest in Finland.
Pro members are offered a wide range of events and training to help them succeed in their working lives. Themes range from developing managerial skills to managing their own work and building a better everyday life.
Pro membership includes travel and leisure accident insurance. Travel insurance is valid worldwide and covers accompanying children and grandchildren under the age of 20.
We support you in finding well-being and a balanced everyday life. You can talk to experts in mental or physical well-being for free. To counterbalance your work, we also offer benefits in your free time. As a member, you enjoy discounts at various holiday destinations.
Collective agreements far exceed the bare minimun of the law
The law does not guarantee a minimum wage. Without unions, the employer can determine it themselves. By joining a union, you ensure that wages in your industry develop along with others.
The law also does not recognize holiday pay, paid public holidays or parental leave pay. Collective agreements guarantee employees significantly more comprehensive security and better benefits than the law – in addition to these, unions negotiate on, for example, the length of holidays, working hours and salary supplements, shift changes, longer salary payments during sick leave or daily commuting allowances.
When a union includes thousands of professionals, the bargaining power is completely different from that of an individual employee. A good example is family leave, which has been negotiated as paid in Pro's contract sectors – could you have negotiated 32 days of paid paternity leave for yourself?
After joining, I realized how important the union plays in the development of not only individual employees but also the entire working world.
Now I feel like I am part of a larger community that promotes the interests of all of us.
- Tapani, Pro member, banking sector