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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.
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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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Boom for Nordic mining industry

Oct 12, 2011 An old base industry has come back to life - the mining industry. If you include Greenland all the four largest Nordic countries have experienced a mining industry renaissance. All the projects together will mean thousands of new jobs. Investments in only six of the largest projects run to 57.5 billon Kronor (€6.3bn) Nordic Labour Journal’s figures show. But can the mining industry attract enough workers?
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The Commission wants to exclude small businesses from working environment rules

Feb 10, 2012 In the Nordic countries small businesses must follow the same working environment rules as big businesses. Now the EU Commission wants to ease the regulations for smaller businesses.
The constant hunt for ways to limit sick leave tema

The constant hunt for ways to limit sick leave

Feb 09, 2010 Levels of sick leave vary a lot between the different Nordic countries, yet it seems it gets harder and harder to qualify for sickness benefit - whether the level of sick leave rises or falls. There is no agreement among researchers on what really lies behind these variations, nor on what policies actually work.
Sick leave in Finland: municipalities on the right track tema

Sick leave in Finland: municipalities on the right track

Feb 09, 2010 Many Finish municipalities have managed to turn the trend of ever increasing levels of sick leave. As the country's largest municipal employer, the City of Helsinki is developing ways of helping people on long-term sick leave to get back to work.
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Focus on ill health means less absence

Feb 09, 2010 If you at an early stage enter a dialogue with workers who are ill, you reduce the level of sick leave. That's the experience in the Høje-Taastrup municipality west of Copenhagen.
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