At Saariselkä Ski Resort you can ski in peace: Pami skiing strike does not apply to it

Tourists next to the Saariselkä sign. — Saariselkä Ski Resort is also open next week. Pam’s strike does not apply to it.

Jarmo Katajamaa, CEO of Ski Saariselkä, has been relieved. Pam’s strike was now aimed at the largest ski resorts in our country. In Saariselkä, we can ski in peace.

The strike of the service industry, PAM, the service industry, which begins on Monday, applies to almost all of the largest ski resorts in the country, but the Saariselä Ski Resort was excluded from the strike.

– They have been able to enjoy their skiing holidays in peace. There have been no strikes as a threat, laughs Jarmo Katajamaa.

Man sitting in a slope cafe — Jarmo Katajamaa, Managing Director of Ski Saariselkä- ski resort, has become easier when PAM’s strike does not apply to his skiing center.

For years of local agreement

Strikes as such in the ski resort in Katajamaa have a clear vision. According to him, ski resorts have long been forced to develop their own pay systems to keep employees in their service. According to Katajamaa, the issues that are now the theme of the strike have been resolved, or at least efforts to resolve locally.

According to Katajamaa, salaries, homes and working conditions have been forced to organize the comfort and motivation of employees. Competition for employees in a seasonal sector is tough and cannot afford to lose employees.

-We already have a much higher salary in each grade than the TES pay tables have demanded. It has been our way of working. We have paid as good a salary as we could.

In the opinion of Jarmo Katajamaa, the protection against dismissal is not a threshold issue for Jarmo Katajamaa. The challenges of seasonal work are more of the well -being of employees and well -being at work.

– The biggest challenge is the annual recruitment, not so much redundancies, says Katajamaa.

Everyday life continues as normal in Saariselkä

Jarmo Katajamaa says everyday life in Saariselkä is normal. The strike does not affect the Saariselkä Ski Resort in any way. Travelers have booked their holidays well in advance and there have been no last -minute reservations due to the strike. Katajamaa is particularly delighted with the increased number of foreign tourists during ski holidays. The poor economic situation has vaccinated the number of domestic ski holidays.

\”It has now been seen that Finns cannot afford to spend long ski holidays in Lapland,\” says Jarmo Katajamaa, CEO of Ski Saariselkä.

Foreign travelers replace the gap left by the domestic and Katajamaa thinks it is a very positive thing.

Levi, Holy and Ruka ski resorts openly open

Jarmo Katajamaa has also been closely related to other Lapland ski resorts. He has been told that the ski resorts, at least in Ylläs, Holy, Levi and Ruka, are aimed at keeping open during the strike. However, some elevators have to be closed in these centers.