Opinion
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Editorial: Equality means sustainability
Economic crisis, political earthquakes and unprecedented terror in the midst of the Nordic region. It has all impacted the Nordic countries. “Crisis test the strength of the Nordic welfare models” is this month’s Theme. One important question pops up: must the welfare models be adapted to avoid growing differences within the countries?
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Editorial: A common Nordic labour market but not common public goods
What would happen in the Øresund region if 20 to 30,000 commuters across the bridge between Sweden and Denmark decided it was time to take action?
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Editorial: Language – a source for joint understanding
“Have you heard your employer use the word ‘safety’ and do you know what that word means?” asks the language teacher at Vestegnen’s Language and Competence Centre south of Copenhagen. The quote touches on the depth of the challenges posed by not understanding a language.
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Editorial: Mobile labour creates turbulence
“I have freed my own work from the shackles of time and space,” says the head of Microsoft Finland in our piece on open plan office spaces. He commutes in time and space between his virtual and real mobile workplace.
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Editorial: Vision or reality?
Will Danes vote for a female prime minister in the coming election? In real life? That would be the first time.
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Editorial: The need to limit working life without boundaries
Mixing work and free time can have unwanted consequences. Nordic Labour Journal puts the spotlight on our portable working hours. How will we deal with the grey zone between work and free time?
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Will Lex Laval work?
On 9 September the Swedish Building Workers’ Union (Byggnads) took industrial action against a Lithuanian company building a school in Höllviken in Southern Sweden. The union demanded the company paid its Lithuanian workers according Swedish salary agreements. Are we heading towards a new Laval ruling?
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National pride gave Icelanders tunnel-vision
Icelanders help each other out in bad times. But when it comes to a man-made crisis they don’t really know how to act.
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The Laval case, act III – Sweden’s Labour Court rules union must pay high damages
The Labour Court judgment is important in principle and very controversial. For the first time in EU history a trade union is made to pay damages after industrial action contrary to EU-law.
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Denmark leading by example
While other industrialised countries are talking up environmental promises ahead of the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark is already acting green and leading by example, writes freelance journalist Gwladys Fouché.
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