SDP in Finland is pretty centrist, all the cool kids vote for Left Alliance Party
EDIT: ok wtf I just looked at Wikipedia and SDP was funded by the CIA in the 50s because of its anti-communist activities :porky-scared:
Social democrats and being useful idiots for anti-communist forces, name a better combo
Few are as virulently anti-communist as succdems. Some conservatives and liberals can do the respecting your political opponents thing and be nice to communists. Not succdems. Not only do they hate the left for opposing capitalism, they also hate us for taking what they consider "their" turf and for calling out their bullshit.
This happened in 2019 btw
But it's pretty cool, I've read somewhere that Finland has one of the highest unionization rates in the world
Yeah - Finland and most Nordic countries don't have a minimum wage at all. They don't need it. Finland has sectoral bargaining that covers basically every worker (unionized and non-unionized) as well as one of the highest unionization rates in the world.
Also you have to eat it at your desk/station while you're working
They don’t need it.
There is a very important caveat to that (at least in Denmark where I'm from). Most workers don't need a minimum wage.
Around 80% of workers are covered by a collective bargaining agreement. Of the remaining some are well-paid PMC's but at the other end of the scale you find very low-paid workers, often migrants, who have limited rights and makes only a tiny amount more than welfare recipients. The politicians are happy that they can leave the responsibility for labour law with unions and employer organisations and are in no hurry to expand legal labour rights.
Danish unions are very succdem and far from being militant proletarian organisations. They have close relations with the leadership of the social democratic party. They would never ever do anything that could get a succdem government in trouble. Currently nurses are striking for better pay and they receive next to no support from other unions who instead support the succdem government's idea of burying the question of nurse salaries in a commission.
700 workers strike and get 60k more in solidarity, holy shit. That's about 90:1. I couldn't imagine the amount of solidarity and organization that would take
Yeah but have you considered rocking the :vote: instead of engaging in effective collective action? Unions take money out of your pocket while donations to political candidates are V O L U N T A R Y T R A N S A C T I O N S
In the US - unionized journalists would - bang out thinkpieces about why the strike is actually really bad for the people striking and the unions are bad within 15 minutes of Twitter posts about the Strike. There also would be no news about the Strike unless they can show unionists “destroying property “
