workers
Most read
Latest
-
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,…
-
We Can Do Better: Anna Marjankowska Wants To Fight For Your Rights
Anna Marjankowska has a lot of irons in the fire. She’s doing extensive work at Andrými, a volunteer-run community activist centre, applying for her PhD, and working part time. But she also happens to be one of the board members of Efling,…
-
News In Brief: A Heart-Shaped Ferris Wheel, Tax Evaders & Doodies
We often talk about the insane amount of tourists who have been visiting our shores in the past few years, but it looks like tourists aren’t the only ones interested in coming to Iceland. The Directorate of Labour estimates that around 3,000…
-
Unions Investigating Stay Apartments
The labour union Efling is now investigating a tourist apartment company which fired eight cleaning workers for wanting their own bathroom and break room. Tryggvi Marteinsson of Efling told Vísir that the former employees of Stay Apartments have brought their case to…
-
Immigrant Labour Crucial To Economic Sustainability
Thousands of immigrants will be needed to enter the Icelandic job market every year for the economy to sustain itself, industry experts predict. “We need foreign workers, untrained and specialists alike,” Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir, Director of the Federation of Icelandic Industries (SI), told…
-
Foreign Workers At Guesthouse Exploited
Two Polish workers at a south Iceland guesthouse were subjected to exploitation that is tantamount to human trafficking, union officials say. Fréttatíminn reports that two Polish women in their thirties came to Iceland in July 2014 and soon thereafter started working at…
-
Employers Issue Warning They Will Raise Prices, Cut Jobs
Business Iceland (SA) has warned that if workers succeed in getting their demands met, most SA companies will raise prices on goods, fire many employees, or both. Kjarninn reports that, according to an SA survey conducted amongst unnamed “main companies” within SA,…
-
Aktu Taktu Fired Worker After She Reported Harrassment
Fróði Frímann Kristjánsson was discharged from his job at the pizzeria Eldsmiðjan after demanding a union representative to be voted by the pizzeria’s staff, and demanding pay for overtime hours he says he worked in 2012. This latest case of the employer…
-
Which Is Why We Talk About The Weather
Yet another Monday. Feel free to read the following at work. That goes for police staff as well. If you are self-employed, unemployed, a student, in hospital, an irregular migrant or currently on strike, I don’t have to tell you. Your teeth…
-
Workers Unite!
Earlier this month, a news story broke in the Icelandic media that a young Icelandic woman working at Lebowski Bar was fired after she asked to be paid minimum wage—effectively a pay rise over what she was getting. The story sparked shock…