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12,000 Finnish Nurses Threaten to Resign over Pay
news.independent.co.uk — Finland's healthcare system risks meltdown at midnight tonight, with almost 12,000 nurses threatening to resign en masse unless their demands for higher wages are met. The government has contacted Sweden and Germany about taking critical cases if Finnish hospitals do grind to a halt.
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- mokki, on 11/19/2007, -0/+2"The panel negotiating the nurses' wage dispute agreed on a proposal for a settlement on Sunday evening. The four-year contract plan was approved unanimously by the negotiators.(...) As the deal has been signed by leaders of both parties to the dispute, rejection from either side is considered unlikely (...) If either side rejects the deal, then some 12,800 municipal nurses could still quit their jobs on Monday night -- about a quarter of the nation's approximately 50,000 nurses."
http://www.yle.fi/news/id75298.html - pedrovoltaire, on 11/19/2007, -2/+2buried because i was sure i would find a pic of a sexy finnish nurse. what a disappointment.
- pcsperson, on 11/20/2007, -0/+2I hope they "24 per cent pay increase over the next 28 months," as they asked for. The RN's deserve the pay increase. Espeacially since the article stated the the nurses made "less than the average Finnish full-time worker's"
- mokki, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1BREAKING NEWS: TEHY and local authorities accept pay deal to avert mass resignations by nurses - Nursing staff to receive 22-28% wage increases over four years "On Monday afternoon, the council of Finland's Union of Health and Social Care Professionals (TEHY) unanimously approved a settlement proposal put forward by the mediation board set up to resolve the labour conflict, in which over 12,000 nurses had threatened to resign en masse on Monday night. "
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/BREAKING+NEWS+TEH ... - mokki, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1http://www.hs.fi/english/article/BREAKING+NEWS+TEH ...
- swordedge, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1If they do that then Finland's health care system is finished!
- graviplana, on 11/20/2007, -0/+2Wow. Dugg!
- lekahe, on 11/20/2007, -0/+2The idea of resigning was totally stupid and not even used in Finland. OK; the nurses are underpaid but so are all the people working for the state and the municipalities. The salary of an elementary school teacher is probably not even as high and they have higher education than nurses.
I have grown up in Finland and seen the effect of strikes but time for them is over. Too bad nobody would probably not even care if we teachers got on strike.
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