Sameyki encourages all its members to take an active part in the day — whether by stopping paid or unpaid work for the entire day, as women first did during the United Nations International Women’s Year in 1975, and by attending solidarity gatherings

The Women’s Strike 2025 will be held on Friday, October 24, when women across the country will stop working to highlight the importance of equality in both words and actions.

Daniel Bartossa says that members of public sector trade unions must take part in the struggle to defend public jobs, which neoliberalism and right-wing forces aligned with market fundamentalism and populism are seeking to dismantle. @psiglobalunion.bsky.social

Instead of improving the wages and conditions of employees who work demanding jobs in the health, social, and education sectors, the government intends to erode the fundamental rights of workers.

The BSRB leadership strongly condemns Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir’s government’s plans is to:

➡️ Abolishing the requirement to issue warnings without consultation

➡️ Curtailing workers’ rights to unemployment insurance

➡️ Abolishing equalization contributions to pension funds

That is a declaration of war against the labor movement. Of course, we want to equalize conditions between the private and public labor markets, but that must be done upwards – not downwards.

When the cost-cutting proposals were presented by the government, we believed many of them favored the Confederation of Employers. For example, there was a proposal to adapt public service laws to the private labor market, which would mean reduced rights for public employees.

Mika Mickelsson, Secretary of the Nordic Council and an employee of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Finland, spoke about the work when looking at the role of the trade unions.

"We in Finland need to prepare for war and have been building up our resilience and will continue to do so."

Janne Känkänen, CEO of the Finland Emergency Institute, discussed infrastructure security at the NSO conference in Helsinki because of the threat from Russia. "We have built up infrastructure that can withstand shocks because we have to be ready when an emergency is created."

Jarno Limnéll, a doctor of military science and a member of the Finnish parliament for the NCP, said this at the NSO conference in Helsinki. “The Russians even know our legislation better than we do. They find loopholes that they attack, and we in parliament have reacted quickly and closed them.”