Suomen Ammattiliittojen Solidaarisuuskeskus

29.01.2007 In September 2006, the forest industry giant UPM, based in Finland, announced its plan to get rid of its remaining 300 forestry workers. They and their union, the Wood and Allied Workers' Union, rejected the plan arguing that it is bad for both the company and its forests, let alone the workers themselves.

16.01.2007 In 2003 Finnish police registered 910 work place accidents. But this figure is only a fraction of the number of work place accidents registered by Statistics Finland, which recorded up to over 100,000 work place accidents. A sixth of the 910 cases registered by police ended up at the discretion of prosecutors.

08.01.2007 Just before Christmas, at the Fur Centre in Vantaa, close to Helsinki, animal rights' activists targeted not only potential customers (which is fairly normal) but this time also Fur Centre employees. Activists photographed employees and their car number-plates or registration numbers. Employees were also verbally abused on their way into work.