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Nordic working group to suggest how to remove border obstacles

Jun 17, 2011 A Nordic working group has been commissioned to present solutions for how to remove 39 border obstacles identified as being to the detriment of working life and social insurance systems in the Nordic countries.
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Renewed fight against Nordic border obstacles

Jun 17, 2011 Nordic Labour Journal has made a top 10 list of border obstacles which make it harder to lead a family life or to live and work across the Nordic borders. Essi Rentola, heads a Nordic working group trying to solve 39 border obstacles She estimates between a third and half of the proposals need to be solved on an EU level.
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Welfare state and social partners’ cooperation

Nov 13, 2011 Cooperation with the social partners is central when politicians in Norway and Denmark sit down to write new political programmes - be it Denmark’s new government programme or the programme for Norway’s 2012 presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers.
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How do the unions handle the new debate on salary gaps?

Nov 13, 2011 Over the past decade the number of working days lost due to labour conflicts has been very low. Illegal industrial action has nearly disappeared altogether. Meanwhile the pay gap has widened considerably. But now there is fresh disquiet. How do unions deal with these new times?
”Change or die” - mobilising and modernising unions tema

”Change or die” - mobilising and modernising unions

Nov 13, 2011 From 2007 to 2011 Swedish trade unions lost 273,000 members. Worst hit was the Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) and the lowest numbers of union membership was found among young people and people of foreign heritage. But unions are not passively watching the fall in membership numbers - on the contrary, they are mobilising to reach old and new members.
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Getting closer to members could secure union survival

Nov 13, 2011 Nordic trade unions must get closer to their members and provide a better service at a lower price. If not the Nordic labour market model will die, warn labour market experts.
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Trade unions and a new spirit of the times

Nov 14, 2011 Inspired by the Arab spring, protesters have been occupying streets and squares in the USA and in Europe. They have highlighted the big gap between the richest one percent and everybody else, even in Western countries. The Nordic region enjoys long traditions of cooperation on how social and working life should develop. But Nordic trade unions are loosing supporters. This could threaten their legitimacy and shift the balance which the Nordic model is based on. Both politicians and researchers are paying close attention to and give advise on how the unions face the spirit of the time, whether it’s their loss of members or young people who see no point in becoming members.
Mining equipment: a Nordic niche tema

Mining equipment: a Nordic niche

Oct 12, 2011 Mining equipment manufacturers have been surfing on a wave of high metal prices. With increasing needs for metals in countries like China, India and Brazil, sales and employment figures keep rising.
Greenland’s red hot labour market tema
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Greenland’s red hot labour market

Oct 12, 2011 Flemming Enequist stands at the stern of a Targa 37 with 600 horse powers ploughing him through the Godthåp fjord on his way to London Mining’s base camp 150 kilometres north-east of Greenland’s capital Nuuk. He works for the local authority and his job is to tempt young Greenlanders to find work in the mining industry.
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Transport facilities crucial to mining

Oct 12, 2011 Nordic politicians are waking up to the possibilities for the mining industry. On 12 October foreign ministers in the Barents Euro-Arctic Council met in the LKAB mine in Kiruna. Norway’s Jonas Gahr Støre (right below) and Sweden’s Carl Bildt arrived together on the ore train from Narvik.
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