The lifts are standing and ticket sales are tangled – so the strike will affect Finland’s most popular ski resorts

A two -day strike reduces the activities of six major ski resorts. Ski resorts are trying to keep the services underway.

The two -day strike for ski resort workers started on Monday morning, just as the schoolchildren of northern Finland got a ski holiday.

There are six ski resorts in the strike, for example Levi, Ruka and Vuokatti. The strike affects, among other things, ski lifts, ticket sales and ski school activities.

Less than half of the Levi Tunturikeskus 27 ski lifts were open on Monday.

According to Palosaari, there may be congestion during the strike on the sale of Levi slopes during the strike. The ski school now only holds pre -booked hours and runs, along with them, Leevilalandia, a children, where children can, among other things, sled.

– Children are our most important customers now, says Palosaari.

Ski holidays are Levink’s hottest season in addition to Easter and the turn of the year. Palosaari estimates that the strike left by the strike is hundreds of thousands of euros. He also rumbles that the strike also causes image damage.

Parviainen now says that all the slopes remain open despite the strike and the elevators are open to the leadership.

Two thirds of the 14th slopes of Vuokatti are open 11.

The protection of the protection at the heart of the strike

The two-day strike in the ski resort began because the service trade union PAM and the tourism and restaurant services Mara did not agree in the ski resort, which was looking for a solution under the guidance of a national mediator.

PAM demanded that his employees, among other things, wage increases, occupational safety and work -related entries, and the retention of dismissal protection.

The parties reached consensus, but no solution was found on the issue of the employee’s dismissal.

Jari Komulainen, chief shop steward of PAM, who is standing at the Vuokatti ski slope, says that the strike is also a matter of dismissal protection.

– The employer wants us to kick us in the yard for no valid reason. It doesn’t sound good suddenly.

– Yesterday, when I left work, the teams called how to suddenly join Pam. The behavior of the employer has aroused the willingness to join the union in employees.

Holidaymakers had contingency plans

– A couple of days ago I noticed this. Of course, the slopes are open, so we don’t hurt us. I do not comment on the causes of the strike. Personally, I’m here on vacation, so the main thing is to get down.

– There was planning, bowling and spa, if not on the slope for the first two days.

How the strike will eventually solve and whether it gets through PAM or the employer, it does not dare to bet on Neea Kotkanoja-Sjöblom.

– Hopefully, however, the slopes will not be more than two days, so hopefully they will be agreed.

The strike ends late Tuesday evening.