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In August 2011, employers, who were increasingly reluctant to negotiate a framework agreement at national level, announced that, this year, they were refusing bargaining for the new general agreement, leaving sectors and businesses to regulate themselves without a national framework, thus questioning more than 40 years of collective bargaining practice. After getting the support, for a while of the government alliance of Jyrki Katainen, the conservative Prime Minister, the union opposition gave this position a pounding, with the support of part of the population, growing tired of the announcements, in the early fall, of numerous relocations. The head of the coalition government and the social-democratic Finance Minister, Jutta Urpilainen, declared they were ready to "make a pact" with the social partners and decrease income tax at the end of the 2012 spring bargaining cycle to maintain buying power. This led the social partners to sign a national agreement in October, which has now spread to several sectors. (Ref. 110725)
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