Postal workers of Finland on Monday staged strikes in several places across the country, and may cause massive delays of mail deliveries in the next few days.

Hundreds of postal workers walked out of their works in Helsinki, Vantaa, Turku, Oulu, Jyvaskyla, Kemi and Seinajoki, to protest against Posti Group's outsourcing its services and forcing its staff members to train temporary workers.

The walkouts may seriously affect mail deliveries in the coming days, said Finnish national broadcaster Yle.

According to Finnish Postal and Logistics Union PAU, organizer of the walkouts, post offices use more and more temporary workers from outside instead of Posti Group's own employees.

As reactions, PAU set a ban on Sunday on overtime work, occupational guidance and training at post service locations where temporary workers are hired from SOL, and decided to organize the strikes on Monday.

PALTA, the Employers' Association of Service Sectors, considered the walkouts as illegal actions, as PAU did not inform them about the strikes in advance. Endit

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