The Finnish Food Workers' Union SEL on Friday announced it will take political strike action on 1-2 February.
The strike will involve nearly 4,500 food workers in 21 food sector workplaces.
The stoppage will include all union member jobs, with the possible exception of emergency work.
SEL provided a list of all the food industry workplaces affected by the strike in a Friday press release (in Finnish).
The union is also urging members to attend a mass demonstration organised by the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions SAK and the Finnish Confederation of Professionals STTK which is being held in Helsinki's Senate Square between 12:00 and 14:00 on Thursday 1 February.
Wave of protests
A wide range of Finnish unions have announced walkouts and work stoppages for next week to protest the labour market policies of the the government headed by Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP).
Unions say that planned changes to legislation will endanger individual security and livelihoods by eroding working conditions, placing further restrictions on the right to strike, and cutting into social security.
Unions in both industrial and white-collar sectors will be taking part in the protest strikes. This week, it was announced that that daycare centres in the Helsinki metropolitan region will be closed on 31 January and 1 February due to a strike by teaching staff. On Wednesday, the Paperworkers' Union announced that around 3,000 of its members will strike for two days starting the morning of 1 February for two days.
The Industrial Union says that 60,000 of its members at 700 locations across the country will walk off their jobs on 1 February.
Service sector union PAM will also join in the political strike.
The Trade Union For The Public and Welfare Sectors (JHL), which represents about 12,000 employees of Finavia and Airpro, announced that its two-day walkout will begin on Thursday 1 February.
In addition to JHL, the Finnish Aviation Union IAU, the Finnish Transport Workers' Union AKT and the Finnish airline pilots' association SLL are also participating in the industrial action.
Among other things, this means that the walkout will impact all major Finnish airports for a period of 48 hours.
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