Pretty much, yeah. The ”Finns Party” have marketed themselves as taking care of the average Finn, that is the workers, and this is the result. The national coalition on the other hand has never been ashamed of working as the political wing of big capital.
Are the union officials sleeping and not informing their members that this ain’t im their interest?
Our unions have been losing members steadily over the years, the younger people don’t anymore see the advantages that the membership brings. The corporations have been publicly defaming the unions for a long time, blaming them for serving only the union leaders. And since the unions had already fought and won most of the important rights for the workers decades ago, it looked like the unions had made themselves obsolete.
The corporations also founded a “general unemployment fund”, so that you could get the same unemployment advantages without joining a union and paying for the membership. This fund has been gaining more and more members since many of the younger people don’t see the the value of joining the unions, believing the ongoing discredit campaign of the right wing lobby.
The current goverment coalition is just about the only one bold enough to try run this legislation through. The prime minister party “Kokoomus” will do anything the corporate lobby desires, the “Finns Party” is a power drunk protest coalition with a primary objective of keeping immigrants out - and if possible, sending the ones already here away. They’ll agree to anything if they can just keep the borders closed and “owning the libs”, even if this means fucking up their own voters’ interests. The Swedish Party will agree to almost anything if they can keep the mandatory Swedish language in the national curriculum. And the Christian Party just want to keep religion in schools and oppose anything even remotely liberal, anything else goes for them.
Oh this is great. So the standard program. 🥲
Is there any feeling of a renewal of the awareness that unions are important, as of late?