A collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is an agreement between the Finnish Seamen’s Union and the employer’s federation or an individual employer and it concerns those terms and conditions, which the employment contract and employment relationship must as a minimum, comply with.

The collective bargaining agreement defines e.g.:

• minimum salaries
• working times and
• overtime remuneration etc.
  
  
  
  

The collective bargaining agreements
of The Finnish Seamen’s Union

The Finnish Seamen’s Union’s main agreements are:

1) passenger-vessel agreement for international traffic
(i.e. the passenger-vessel agreement),

2) the collective bargaining agreement for ratings, engine crew and restaurant, kitchen and hotel personnel in international traffic
(i.e. the yellow book, which concerns primarily cargo vessels in international traffic);

3) collective bargaining agreement of Finstaship;

4) collective bargaining agreement of Destia;

5) collective bargaining agreement of Ahvenanmaa’s provincial government; and

6) collective bargaining agreement of domestic passenger vessel traffic.

In addition to these agreements, The Finnish Seamen’s Union has concluded many other collective bargaining agreements including vessel related collective bargaining agreements for all of the cargo and passenger vessels, which are plying their trade in international traffic. In the latter mentioned agreements, the following issues have for example been agreed: the number of crew and the necessary qualifications, rotation, working hours and the allocation of sales bonus.