Still scratching your head over the power plays surrounding the constitutional assembly?
Well scratch away as the Employers’ Association under the leadership of the Independence Party’s Vilhjalmur Egilsson has threatened that it will not participate in pending talks on wage reform with the unions and employers associations unless the government reneges on its intentions to dismantle the current fishing quota system.
Blogger Jon Danielsson points out that this would be an understandable demand from the Fisheries’ Association, but from the Employers’ Association it makes little sense. It only counts 190 out of 2.426 of the businesses it represents as fisheries or 7.8%. Of the 56.100 employees working for their members, only 4.700 or 8.4% are with the fisheries.
The fisheries stance on the wage negotiations and the support they get from the Employers’ Association means that more than 90% of the employers working for the latter’s members will have to wait for better pay for a while yet.
About half of them will probably succumb to some libertarian slogans and nationalistic rhetoric and end up believing that this is how things are supposed to be.
And that is how things really work in Iceland.
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Örn
1 year ago
Just wanted to point out that the Jon Danielsson that you are refering to in your blog is not the economist who goes by the same name and holds a position at the London School of Economics.
The Jon Danielsson which you refer to does though hold a degree from the well respected junior college Menntaskólinn á Akureyri which he required in 1970. For furthere info: http://www.jondan.is/jondan/?D10cID=news
Dadi
1 year ago
Thanks for pointing that out Örn, I have changed his title in the article from Economist to blogger… or do you know a more appropriate title for him, apart from the self-appointed “grey-beard from Hrutafjordur”