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How to join?

Any individual engaged in working life or studying within higher education is welcome to join an Akava affiliate union. The unions welcome students, employees, self-employed professionals and entrepreneurs. The jaseneksi.fi service will help you in finding a suitable union on the basis of your field of education or your degree.

If you are in working life, you can contact the shop steward or representative of Akava unions at your workplace and they will assist you in selecting a suitable union.


The Finnish Officers’ Union

The Finnish Officers’ Union (Upseeriliitto) is a professional organisation for the officers serving within the Finnish Defence Forces and the Finnish Border Guard and it is ideologically focused on national defence. Within the Defence Forces, the unionisation level is over 98%. The Union has over 6,300 members. The primary task of the Union is to supervise the interests of its members.

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Tehtävä ja toiminta

The Union negotiates, on behalf of officers, the terms and conditions of collective agreements, salary and other agreements as well as of the service relationships for crisis management tasks. We offer counselling in issues related to contracts and any discrepancies in their application.

Our most important tasks include collective salary negotiations, shop steward services, negotiations with various authorities, counselling regarding service relationship matters and exerting influence in society. The Union offers its members with training, legal expenses insurance, guarantee for study loans, the common membership benefits shared by all Akava affiliates as well as destinations for leisure.

The membership fee includes the Union's magazine, Sotilasaikakauslehti.

Who can join

You can join the Union if you are an officer with a degree in military sciences from the National Defence Academy (formerly Cadet School) or a cadet conducting studies to become an officer.

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