Finnish trade unions continue their strike. The situation in the Finnish housing market worries experts. prepare Posting in CHAT: Russia Finnish unions continue strike On Wednesday, the board of SAK, Finland's central trade union association, decided that political strikes will continue for another week. Strikes by SAK and its unions against government reforms and welfare cuts began on 11 March. They were supposed to end at the end of March. They will now last for at least four weeks until April 7. Finnish trade confederation EK says SAK unions' decision to continue political strikes shows "total disregard". “SAK appears to be worsening its debt problem. A long strike worsens the situation not only of enterprises and workers, but also of the entire society. Production cuts and job losses increase the decline in tax revenues,” EK CEO Jüri Häkämis said in the press. The EC estimates that the ongoing strikes are causing almost €300 million in damage, and political strikes against the government have already caused almost two billion euros in damage to the gross national product. and at the same time sends a bad signal to foreign investors,” says Hyakamis. How does SAC justify strikes? “We asked the government of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo for justice and moderation. But the government doesn't listen to us. It still intends to pursue some business goals that negatively impact workers. Many of them do not affect employment or the balance of public finances,” SAK President Jarkko Eloranta said in a communiqué. The unions are ready to call off the strike at any time if the government "shows understanding of workers' concerns." “. The strikes, which blocked export ports and rail transport, also had a significant impact on fuel distribution. Neste, the Finnish oil refinery, announced on Tuesday that the continuation of the strike had begun to cause disruptions in fuel distribution at its stations and that the situation would worsen as strikes continued. “Due to the continuation of the political strike, the company will no longer be able to deliver supplies and sufficient quantities of fuel to consumers through its network of gas stations.” And on Wednesday, Neste updated the list of gas stations experiencing shortages of certain types of fuel. The list has increased compared to the previous day. As of Wednesday morning, the list included 9 regular gas stations and 19 heavy equipment service stations. “Scarcity raises prices” Gasoline prices in Finland have risen in some places to more than two euros per liter. According to the website Polttoaine.net, at the end of last week the average price of 95 gasoline was 2,007 euros, 98 gasoline was 2,113 euros, and diesel fuel was 2,033 euros per liter. In total, about 7,000 workers from the Finnish Industrial Association, the AKT Automotive and Transport Workers' Union, the Pami Service Workers' Union, the Construction Workers' Union, the JHL State and Social Workers' Union and the Finnish Electricians' Union are on strike. The SAC board will meet later to assess the situation and continue the strike after Easter. The inclusion of ports in the strike resulted in the inability to export products and shortages of many imported commodities. In the forestry industry, many factories were forced to temporarily close when exports at ports ceased. The strike affected industrial sectors such as the Outokumpu ports and factories in Tornio and the SSAB plant in Raahe, while silicon wafer manufacturer Okmetic ceased operations. Labor Minister Arto Satonen considers the information about the continuation of strikes serious, but not surprising. “The current strikes have resulted in many industrial plants being forced to cut production, resulting in production losses, as well as negotiations for changes and layoffs,” says Satonen. Earlier this week it was reported that due to the strikes, about 30 percent of companies in the industrial sector will be forced to shut down and reduce their activities, and about 30 percent of employees will have to be laid off. “Continued strikes mean that job losses will increase and new jobs will not be created when investment is suspended,” says the vice-president of the Finnish Technology Industry Association. – Every strike week means job losses. All in all, a very sad day, she says. Will the strikes last until the first of May? According to SAK President Eloranta, the strikes will end at the latest if and when the Labor Peace Law banning political strikes comes into force. The government hopes the laws will come into force before May. Cookhttps://www.hs.fihttps://www.hs.fihttps://www.mtvuutiset.fihttps://aftershock.news The situation in the Finnish housing market worries experts: “The question arises who can afford housing” All More and more young people believe that owning a home does not make financial sense. This is proven by the results of a recent study commissioned by Danske Bank. High home prices, income levels and lack of savings make it difficult to buy a first home. However, interest in purchasing apartments remains high, the study showed. Researcher Timo Kauppinen, director of the National Institute for Health and Welfare THL, and Marie Vaattovaara, professor of urban geography at the University of Helsinki, discussed changes in the housing market. According to THL's Kauppinen, a similar trend has long been observed in other countries: high rental rates make it difficult to save up to buy a first home. Marie Vaattovaara notes that the situation for homeowners has also become more difficult due to rising interest rates, energy and property taxes. The desire to buy housing is limited by rising prices. – Housing for people is more than a financial issue. Basic security and social peace were built there. The question arises as to who can afford housing, says Vattovaara. Supply and demand The government's decision to cut housing subsidies comes into force next Monday. Changes to housing support and unemployment benefits will affect about half a million Finns. The day of change is already being felt in the rental market as people begin to look for more affordable housing. Even greater tension is yet to come. From the beginning of next year, Finns will no longer receive housing to cover the cost of living in their own home. In addition, the Ara government wants to reduce the construction of cheaper housing and stop subsidizing new housing. Experts are concerned about the current trend of simultaneous weakening of both social benefits and rental housing. “Currently, both demand and supply are declining,” says Vattovaara. According to Timo Kauppinen, spending cuts will further widen the gap between people with low and high incomes, since people with low incomes will be more likely to have to look for housing that matches their income level in low-income areas. Subsidies flow to investors According to Vaattovaara, the Finnish housing market has developed a situation where one's own housing is not subsidized, but other people's housing is subsidized indirectly, through support for tenants. “In terms of the housing market as a whole, this is a pretty wild moment. I would venture to say that in terms of segregation and lowest incomes, the housing market as a whole is broken. Vaattovaara, together with demographer Pekka Vuori, conducted a study on the development of the housing market. “At the same time, the number of homeowners decreased and all the smallest houses became investment apartments,” says Vattovaara. An extreme example is Tampere, where, according to the study, out of almost 9,000 new one-room apartments, just over 300 became available to owners. The vast majority, about 7,000 private homes, went to investors. /aftershock.news Source link Source link
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The Forgotten Irish Slave Trade – Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish captives as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required that Irish political prisoners be sent abroad and sold to English settlers in the Caribbean. From the mid-17th century, the Irish made up the majority of slaves traded in Antigua and Montserrat. By that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves. Ireland quickly became the largest source of livestock for English traders. Most of the first slaves sent to the New World were in fact white. The population of Ireland fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in just one decade. Let's remember in more detail how it happened... Families were divided because the British did not allow Irish fathers to take their wives and children with them to the Atlantic. This has led to homeless women and children. The British solution to this problem was to auction them off. During this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were smuggled into Barbados and Virginia. A further 30,000 Irish men and women were transported and sold to bidders. In 1656, Cromwell ordered 2,000 Irish children to be sent to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers. Many people today avoid calling the Irish slaves what they really were: slaves. They came up with the idea of calling them "Indentured Servants" to describe what was happening to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries onwards, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle. For example, the African slave trade had just begun during this period. It is well known that African slaves, untainted by the hated Catholic faith and sold at a higher price, were treated much better than their Irish counterparts. African slaves were very expensive at the end of the 17th century (£50), but Irish slaves were cheap (no more than £5). If a planter beat, branded, or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never considered a crime. The death of a slave was a monetary issue, but it was much cheaper than killing a more expensive African. English masters quickly began breeding Irish women for both personal pleasure and greater profit. The children of slaves were themselves slaves who added to the master's labor force. Thus, Irish mothers, even despite this emancipation, rarely left their children and remained in slavery. began crossing Irish women and girls with African men to create a special type of slave. These new “mulatto” slaves were worth more than Irish cattle and also allowed settlers to save money by purchasing new African slaves. This practice of interbreeding Irish women with African men continued for several decades and was so widespread that in 1681 a law was passed "prohibiting the practice of mating Irish female slaves with African male slaves for the purpose of producing slaves for sale." In short, he was stopped only because it affected the profits of a large slave transport company. England continued to send tens of thousands of Irish slaves for over a century. Records show that after 1798, the year of the Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to America and Australia. There were terrible abuses of both African and Irish prisoners: one British ship even drowned 1,302 slaves in the Atlantic so that the crew would have more food. There is no doubt that the Irish suffered the horrors of slavery just as much (if not more so) in the 17th century than Africans. Another very small issue is that those brown, dark faces that you may see while traveling in the West Indies are most likely a combination of African and Irish ancestry. In 1839, Britain finally decided on its own to stop participating in this terrible act. . and stop transporting slaves. Although their decision did not stop the pirates. Why is this so rarely talked about? Do the memories of hundreds of thousands of Irish victims deserve more than the mention of an unknown author? Or is their history, as the English pirates wanted: (unlike the African) should completely and completely disappear, as if it had never existed. Not a single Irish victim was ever able to return to their homeland to talk about the suffering that befell them. These are the lost slaves, the ones that time and partisan history books have conveniently forgotten. Slave work. Other prisoners of war, as well as political dissidents captured in the conquered regions of England, Wales and Scotland, were also sent to permanent settlement in Barbados as slaves. Essentially, this allowed Cromwell to purge the population of any hostile elements, as well as provide a profitable source of income by selling them to plantation owners. represented among the island's population, about 21,700 of them were of European origin. Later, as the African slave trade began to expand and prosper, the number of Irish slaves in Barbados declined rapidly over time, partly because many of them died of labor soon after their arrival, and also as a result of racial mixing with black slaves, as opposed to a small number whites. While there were indentured servants in Barbados who could at least theoretically hope for eventual freedom, no matter how difficult their temporary slavery may have been, the white slaves had no such hope. In fact, they were treated the same as African slaves in every conceivable way. Irish slaves in Barbados were considered property that could be bought, sold and disposed of as they saw fit. Their children also inherited slavery for life. Punitive violence such as flogging was widely used against Irish slaves and was often used immediately after their arrival to brutally secure their status as slaves and also as a warning against future disobedience. . "quality". “From each captive to future buyers, what became famous in black slave markets was also practiced against white slaves and indentured servants in the Caribbean and North American colonies. Irish slaves were separated from their free white relatives. the owner's initials, which were applied with a hot iron on the forearm for women and on the buttocks for men. Irish women in particular were considered a superior commodity by white slave owners, who purchased them as sexual concubines. The rest were eventually sold. to local brothels. The degrading practice of sexual slavery made Irish men, women and children potential victims of the perverted whims of many disgusting buyers. In fact, the fate of white slaves was no better than that of captured Africans. Sometimes due to economic This was especially true throughout much of the 17th century, as white captives were worth much less on the slave market than their African counterparts, and were therefore treated much worse because they were considered convenient, disposable labor. Only later did black slaves become a cheaper product. . In a report dating from 1667, the Irish of Barbados are mercilessly described as: "Poor people who are simply allowed not to die... they are ridiculed by the blacks and called the Epithet white slaves." A 1695 report written by the island's governor openly states that they worked "under the scorching sun without shirts, shoes or stockings" and were "mercilessly oppressed and used like dogs." The Irish of that time were well aware that deportation or “Barbados” to the Caribbean meant a life of slavery. In many cases, it was common for white slaves in Barbados to have mulatto or black overseers, who often treated captured Irish slaves with extreme cruelty. In fact: Mulatto drivers took pleasure in flogging whites. This gave them a sense of power as well as a form of rebellion against their white masters. Raising Slave Children Mixed Race White slave girls, often starting at age 12, were used as "breeders" and were forcibly mated with black men. a widespread threat faced by aristocratic planters. This type of rebellion occurred in November 1655 when a group of Irish slaves and servants escaped along with several blacks and attempted to incite a general revolt among the slaves against their masters. This was quite a serious threat that aristocratic planters faced. threat to. to justify the deployment of the militia, which eventually routed the rebels in a fierce battle. Before their deaths, they inflicted significant damage on the ruling plantation class by cutting several slave owners to pieces in retaliation for their slavery. They failed to completely burn down the sugar cane fields they were forced to work in to enrich their masters. and their heads then rose at the launches for everyone to see. On the market. As a result of the dramatic increase in black slave migration to Barbados, coupled with high Irish mortality rates and racial mixing, the number of white slaves who had once made up the majority of the population in 1629 was reduced to an ever smaller minority. by 1786. Today it is only a miniature but still significant community among the local population of Barbados, including descendants of Scots-Irish slaves who continue to bear witness to a tragic legacy. of their chained Celtic ancestors. This small group on the predominantly black island of Barbados is known locally as the "Redlegs", which was originally a derogatory nickname, understood in the same context as the slur "redneck", and derived from the tanned skin of the…
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New regions of Russia are actively restoring industry and integrating into the country’s production chains, said the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov in an interview with the Kherson News Agency. Posting in CHAT: RussiaWe have collected the key statements of the Deputy Prime Minister: Promising industries in the DPR and LPR are metallurgy, chemistry and mechanical engineering; There are already more than 500 enterprises operating in the new regions. Since last spring, as part of the work of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, it was possible to restart about 160 industrial sites, which provided work for another 11.5 thousand people; Products manufactured in new regions are already supplied to other regions of Russia; New regions are becoming attractive to investors, especially in the field of metallurgy and heavy engineering; A free economic zone has been created to support the investment potential of new regions; New regions have the potential to introduce artificial intelligence and innovation, but the main task now is to restore the destroyed production infrastructure and eliminate the technological gap; Food security has been ensured in the Donetsk and Lugansk republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions; In new regions, local retail chains are actively developing and negotiations are underway to work with large regional retail chains and leading marketplaces. Subscribe toLOMOVKA Based on materials from the Telegram channel “Lomovka” Original source Source link