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Cultural Industry Wages Decreased By 40%
According to the Icelandic Confederation of University Graduates (BHM), total wage payments in the cultural industries have decreased by 40% between the years of 2008 and 2020, and the number of employees in the same sector has shunk by 25%. Artist salaries…
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Law On Nurses Strike Passes, Resignations Follow En Masse
Parliament passed a law commanding striking nurses go back to work, resulting in mass resignations and criticism of the law as “completely unnecessary”. Last Sunday, parliament passed a law ordering striking nurses to go back to work, and then have an arbitration…
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Government Getting More Involved In Nurses’ Strike
The government will form a “conciliation committee” to try to end the nurses’ and university workers’ strike, and may be preparing legislation as well. Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson has announced that the government will form the committee to focus exclusively on…