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(en) The Finnish bus-strike is over
From
Ilan Shalif <gshalif@netvision.net.il>
Date
Mon, 09 Feb 1998 14:51:31 +0200
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From: Jarkko Saipio <jarkko.saipio@mail.diak.fi>
The Helsinki-area public transport strike was actually over already,
when
Anttis message reached you. An agreement between employers and
employees
was archieved in late Sunday evening, about five hours before the
solidarity-strikes would have took place. The employees got the main
things
they demanded (But of course not everything they demanded, stike
agreements
are in Finland ALWAYS for some extend a compromise between emloyers
and
eyployees. But this time they were the employers that had to give up
more).
I'm very glad FW Rautiainen had enough time and energy (he's a real
activist) to write you a report of the strike. I totally agree with
him
that the stike was (at least for now) THE strike of the 90's in
Finland.
However, I would like to correct some little mistakes in his report.
The
number of strikers was 3300, not 2000. The number of scab-buslines was
three, not two. The strikers in Finland DO usually have some kind of
pickets, but only in order to see and demoralise the scabs, not
demonstration-like pickets with signs and banderols, that we had with
strikers in front of the municipal organisation (YTV) that made the
decisions about "competing" the buslines of capital area. In Finnish
we
actually don't have a word that would have exacly the same meaning
like
"picketing". Your consept "picket" is much wider than our consept
"lakkovartio".
The firemen-strike has lasted over 10 weeks now. I'm not pedant, but
in
Finland strikes are much shorter than in for example United States, so
10
weeks is here significantly longer time to be in a stike than 8 weeks.
Solidarity,
Jarkko Saipio
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