Tehy Membership
Trade union membership is high in the health and social care sector in Finland with as many as 90 % of employees being trade union members. Today Tehy has more than 150,000 members including 23,000 student members. Around 85 % of Tehy members are employed in the municipal sector.
Tehy represents
- nurses
- public-health nurses
- practical nurses
- biomedical laboratory scientists
- paramedics
- physiotherapists
- midwives
- radiographers
- dental nurses
- oral hygienists
- nursery nurses/childminders
- mental health nurses
- medical porters and ambulance crews
- primary nurses
- social workers
- podiatrists
- chiropodists
- health care centre assistants
- occupational therapists
- rehabilitation therapists
- naprapaths
- osteopaths
- geriatric carers