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Recapping A Year Of Food Highs And Lows
2024 set the stage for what could be a defining 2025 for Iceland’s food and beverage industry One of the things that is perhaps not talked about enough in this job is just how privileged and rewarding being a food writer is.…
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Landmark Labour Negotiations Concluded
On March 7, a long-term agreement was reached between the Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise, and labour unions Starfsgreinasambandið, Efling and Samiðn. The new contract aims to create conditions for lower inflation, decreased index rates and increase stability. Dubbed Stöðugleikasamningurinn (the Agreement for…
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The Labour Dispute Heats Up As SA Approves Efling Work Ban
The labour negotiations between the Icelandic Confederation of Business (SA) and Efling union reached a turning point Wednesday, as an overwhelming majority of SA members approved a work stoppage on Efling‘s union members. SA‘s member companies voted 94,73% in favour of the…
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What The News?! Don’t Tase Me, Bro, Let’s Negotiate
Negotiations are stalling Diving right in, ongoing wage negotiations between labour union Efling and the Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise (SA) can best be characterised as feisty, with the former threatening at every twist and turn to have its members — which form…
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Hotel Employees and Truck Drivers On Strike
Truck drivers and hotel employees who are members of the Efling labour union went on strike as of noon today. Including in the striking members are 70 truck drivers employed by Samskip, Skeljungur and Olíudreifing, many of whom deliver petrol throughout the…
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Union Optimistic Management Will Approve Short-Term Collective Bargaining Agreement
The director of labour union Efling told RÚV that she is optimistic that Business Iceland (SA) will accept the terms of a short-term collective bargaining agreement that the union has put before them. The contract stipulates a flat-rate wage rise of 56,700…
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Union Shop Stewards: Mass Firing “Wrong, Unwise, And Completely Unnecessary”
Following last Wednesday’s news that Efling director Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir announced that the union’s board reached an agreement with the shop stewards that, amongst other things, extended the termination period for the mass firing at Efling and would allow employees to look…
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Agreement Reached With Shop Stewards Regarding Mass Firing At Labour Union
Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir, the president of the labour union Efling, announced that the union’s board has reached an agreement with the union’s shop stewards regarding the mass firing of every employee at the union offices. [su_pullquote]What are the Icelandic classics that just…
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RVK Newscast 178: Union Leader Fires Her Entire Staff
In today’s Newscast, editor-in-chief of the Reykjavík Grapevine, Valur Grettisson, treats Chief Morale Officer, Pollý, to a trip to her favourite dog park. Oh and there’s some news: the entire staff of a union have been fired, avalanche tragedy and the banking…
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Mass Firing At Labour Union On First Day Of New Board In Office
The new directorship board of Efling put forward, and passed, a measure on their first working day to fire everyone working at the labour union, Vísir reports. [su_pullquote]What are the Icelandic classics that just stay on the market despite the ever changing…
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Efling Elects New Directorship
Following last evening’s elections for the directorship of the labour union Efling, former director Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir and the other candidates in “Baráttulistinn”, or simply B-list, the other candidates for the board for Efling under her auspices, have been elected to lead…
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Union Heads Resign: Conflict Between Leadership, Current And Former Members
Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir, the director of labour union Efling, announced she was resigning from her position yesterday, RÚV reports. Shortly thereafter, managing director Viðar Þorsteinsson said he was doing the same. Sólveig has publicly spoken on the matter on social media that…
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Wage Theft Claims Amount To One Billion ISK
The total amount of unpaid wages that Efling has demanded from employers has amounted to 345 million ISK last year, RÚV reports. Wage theft is becoming a huge problem in Iceland, with more and more workers turning to trades unions to demand…
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Government Introduces New Economic Package; Unions Expressly Disappointed
Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir introduced yesterday a new economic stimulus package aimed at keeping Iceland’s economy alive through the coronavirus pandemic. The points of emphasis have drawn criticism from labour; in particular the union Efling, which characterised the package as “only support[ing]…
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In Wake Of Worker-Led Actions, Union Head Demands Gov’t Make Wage Theft Punishable
Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir, the director of the labour union Efling, posted an open letter to the Icelandic government yesterday, calling upon them to make wage theft punishable by law—something that is not currently the case in Iceland, even though it was an…
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Growing Calls For Reform Following House Fire That Killed Three Polish Workers
Urgent calls for legislative change are growing in the wake of a house fire on Bræðraborgarstígur 1 that killed three people on June 25th. As reported, a demonstration was held on Sunday to mourn those who died in the blaze and to…
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Union Head Criticises Arrest Of Foreign Workers
Police recently arrested four foreigners at a construction site who are alleged to be working in Iceland under false pretenses, Vísir reports. The chair of one of Iceland’s largest labour unions has criticised these arrests, saying that authorities should focus on employers…
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Collective Bargaining Agreement Between Efling And Municipalities Reached
The strike between workers within the labour union Efling and the municipalities of Seltjarnarnes, Kópavogur, Mosfellsbær, Hveragerði and Ölfus came to an end yesterday, Efling announced, in the form of a collective bargaining agreement. The workers, mostly women employed in a caregiver…
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Efling Votes To Go Forward With Strikes On May 5th
The labour union Efling will resume strike actions in select municipalities on May 5th, the union announced yesterday. These municipalities will be Seltjarnarnes, Kópavogur, Mosfellsbær, Hveragerði and Ölfus. An overwhelming majority of workers who took part in the vote on the strike…
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Collective Bargaining Reached With Efling Reykjavik City Workers
The strike of Reykjavík City workers within the labour union Efling, which formally began on January 21st, has now come to a close. After a series of work stoppages and then a strike, a collective bargaining agreement has at last been reached…
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What Are Icelanders Talking About?: Coronavirus, Efling Strike, And More
One of the more concerning news stories of late has been the arrival of the coronavirus to Iceland. An Icelandic man in his forties was diagnosed on February 28th and was quarantined at the Landspítali Infectious Disease Department in Fossvogur. In the…
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Talks Between Reykjavik City And Union Break Down, Strike To Continue
Representatives of the labour union Efling met with representatives of the City of Reykjavík for the third time last Tuesday to try and reach an agreement, to no avail. As such, the ongoing strikes will continue. Mayor Dagur B. Eggertsson spoke about…
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Efling Strike Continues, Only Collective Bargaining Agreement Will End It
The strike by members of the labour union Efling working for the City of Reykjavík began at midnight. This is the final phase of the strike, which is scheduled to go on indefinitely. Last week, the second phase of the strike initiated,…