Finnair has just announced that they're going to have to cancel a majority of their flights tomorrow due to a (mostly unrelated) labor dispute. The airline canceled 26 flights Sunday evening (November 24), and then it's expected that 250 more flights will be canceled Monday (November 25). Finnair was scheduled to operate 377 flights on…
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As a finn, this is fairly normal. Happens every once and a while.
It is also why Finland is one of the best places to live in the world. Workers need they're leverage and this is how it works.
I fully acknowledge it's easy for me to say, as I' not impacted by this, but at the same time it IS the price we all bay for sane and stable society. The contrast is striking nowadays and comparing that to single day of inconvenience... is no comparison.
Unions make everything worse, no wonder Europe is slowly becoming an after thought in the global economy
As a Finn I have to say that this no longer has anything to do with the actual workers.
Unions no longer enjoy the de-facto state and they are loosing members every year, 5% in the last four years alone. Soon less than 50% of men belong to any union. Every now and then the unions need to show that they still matter -- like they did in the 50's.
The issue is now that one union would be loosing third of their members as they move to another union. This weekend all the unions involved in the original dispute agreed to the proposal -- except for one of the new unions, lol. They are just causing future problems for the workers at the expense of their (unions) own existence.
Any modern Finn hardly receives any mail, it's 2019 after all, so they just need to realise that world is changing.
Peter, to be precise it was one of the (smallish) employer organisations which killed the proposed agreement. Everybody can assess whetehr they had good grounds for that.