Finland: Nurses to Strike; Traffic Accidents Increase in Helsinki

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | October 18th, 2007 | Trackback

Almost 13,000 nurses have threatened to resign Nov. 19 if the government doesn’t increase their wages 24 percent. Thousands of others have moved to Sweden and Norway since the 1990s where wages are significantly higher, and if the mass resignation occurs, Finland’s health care system may be paralyzed. In other news, modest increases in traffic accidents in Helsinki have officials calling for “zero tolerance” of traffic violations as a way to rein in what they consider to be a growing trend of incivility behind the wheel. Accidents increased 20 percent in September over last year, and in 2007 accidents are up about 10 percent over 2006.

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