Fix things Friday (er, Saturday)

[luzula]

In the last three weeks I have:
- attended and written minutes for a board meeting of the union,
- painted another banner, protesting planned infringements of the right to strike,
- put up the banner between treetops,
- attended a protest about same,
- written and sent out June newsletter for the union,
- attended and written minutes for another board meeting of the union, where we interviewed candidates for a paid position that will be free soon,
- contacted people who pay their union dues to the wrong bank account which is very annoying for the treasurer,
- recruited another person to the union board, yay! (we were only three before and one of us is taking a break),
- held an excursion about mosses on the UN International Day for Biological Diversity,
- done accounting and bill-paying for environmental org,
- planned for the forest inventories this summer,
- planned for but ultimately did not go to a meeting with a forest company about a contested forest area (because they were limiting the agenda in a way that would disadvantage us),
- donated fairly large chunks of money to Rainforest Rescue (German organization that organizes petitions and passes a lot of money along to worthwhile local projects), Agent Green (Romanian organization fighting for forests), and a local leftist book café which is having to move because of rent hikes.

The planned infringements of the right to strike are just infuriating, and probably against ILO conventions. : / People are not actually striking much at all, and yet it's painted as this big threat to the "Swedish model". There has been a long-time conflict at the docks in Gothenburg which is the excuse to push this through. It's true that the conflict has cost money for the company there, but it's because they've been doing lock-outs--the strikes have been very limited! And yet I do not see the government pushing to limit the right to do lock-outs. *sarcasm*

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[blnchflr]

held an excursion about mosses
Sounds great - who were the participants, students or anyone interested?

it's painted as this big threat to the "Swedish model". There has been a long-time conflict at the docks in Gothenburg which is the excuse to push this through. It's true that the conflict has cost money for the company there, but it's because they've been doing lock-outs--the strikes have been very limited! And yet I do not see the government pushing to limit the right to do lock-outs. *sarcasm*
Fuckers >:[

[luzula]

There were three participants: a friend of mine and two random interested people. So not that many, but it was good anyway!

Fuckers, indeed. As an example, the new law suggestion says that you can't take industrial action against a company which breaks labor law, because you're supposed to take them to court instead. Which of course takes much more time and is more expensive, and more companies will get away with it.

[blnchflr]

If we haven't already talked about it, I'm completely tinhat-convinced that strong capitalist powers are working to topple Scandinavian socialism - in Denmark I believe they're doing it by e.g. removing funds from our welfare society, so they can point and say, "look, it's not working!" and make their American model dream come true instead - of course our hospitals etc. are not able to provide the same service when you keep removing funds >:[

[luzula]

Well, of course--I don't think you need a tin hat to draw that conclusion...