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Union membership will ensure you support and security throughout your career. As a member of an Akava affiliate union, you have access to guidance and assistance, for example, when seeking a job or making an employment contract. We offer you security in different phases of life – you don’t need to master everything yourself.

The union serves as a professional and working life community for you. It promotes the interests of its members at workplaces, on the labour market and in society at large. It also provides you with individual services and useful information.

Our service is intended for those who actively seek information about trade unions. The service enables you to search for a suitable Akava union by your field of education or degree. If you cannot find a suitable union by using the search function, don’t hesitate to contact us!


Find your Akava union

Akava is comprised of 36 affiliate unions representing individuals with higher education. There are two ways of searching information: by field of education or by degree.


Akava Special Branches

Akava Special Branches (Akavan Erityisalat) is a multidisciplinary trade union and service organisation comprised of 22 independent member organisations. Altogether, the member organisations have a total of approx. 30 000 members.

Most member organisations welcome students as members. The members work in expert and managerial positions in the fields of culture, administration, communications and wellbeing.

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As a member, you have access to a wide range of versatile and useful benefits, including individual legal counselling, salary counselling and comprehensive insurance coverage. We offer you information, advice and assistance if you have any questions about employment contracts, pay or career development or any other work-related matters.

We contribute to working life development and unemployment security for you. We also support you when things don’t go as planned at work. We supervise the interests of our members in collective agreement negotiations and contribute to the sustainable development of working life. We aim to raise awareness and increase the appreciation of the fields represented by our member organisations.

Who can join

You can join one of our member organisations if you have completed a degree or are studying at an academic university or university of applied sciences. For universities, the fields we represent include humanities, general, adult and special education, administrative and political sciences as well as communications and the fine arts. We have suitable member organisations for those who have graduated from universities of applied sciences with a degree in humanities, arts and culture, tourism, catering and domestic services, executive assistant work and languages, sign language, dental hygienist work, geriatric work as well as physical education and recreation.

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