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2000

• Nordic media unions women's seminar: Equality well established but women still suffer discrimination in pay, training and promotion (21.09.2000)
• Rebuff in Estonia: Chemical workers union folds (08.09.2000)
• Eight per cent increase: More than 5,000 cases of occupational illness in 1999 (15.08.2000)
• Unemployment rate falls painfully slowly (11.08.2000)
• Finns highly sceptical of competitive tendering in public services (25.07.2000)
• Wages and salaries to rise by four per cent this year -
  long-term comprehensive incomes policy agreement
  in the making (11.07.2000)
• In the 4th quarter of the wages of men in Finnish industry were 23 per cent higher than those of women - the corresponding differential one year earlier was 24 per cent (26.06.2000)
• Latter half of the 1990s in Finland: Accelerated globalisation of the economy (14.06.2000)
• Workers' health not the only sufferer: More unsociable working hours may also risk economic performance of business enterprises (29.05.2000)

ICFTU 17th Congress in Durban 3-7.4.2000

• 17th ICFTU Congress lays firm foundations: The core of the world's social movements will intensify their fight for global justice and strengthen cooperation with all democratic forces outside the ICFTU family (07.04.2000)
• Half of humanity without statutory social security: ICFTU gathers strength to solve the deepening social crisis (07.04.2000)
• Social dialogue with the Chinese ACFTU: ICFTU working for global trade union unity (06.04.2000)
• ILO Deputy General Secretary Kari Tapiola: Governments increasingly aware that promoting fundamental labour rights improves their image (06.04.2000)
• Only brief remarks on tariffs, subsidies and quotas: 17th ICFTU Congress concentrates on trade policy in demanding universal core labour standards (05.04.2000)
• ICFTU General Secretary Bill Jordan defines: Globalisation's greatest crime is the indifference of governments and business (04.04.2000)
• ICFTU 17th Congress begins in Durban: Women to have stronger voice in future? (03.04.2000)

January-March

• EU membership negotiations give Baltic country trade unions new channels of influence (30.03.2000)
• SASK implements Finnish trade union policy to strengthen unions in developing countries (05.03.2000)
• Lutheran bishops in defence of the Nordic welfare State (24.02.2000)
• Finnlines and Fortum plan to outflag 18 ships: Finnish taxes on shipping are above the EU average - Seamen's union and companies form joint lobby for lower taxes (12.02.2000)
• UNI began its work: Finnish unions eager to strengthen global solidarity (09.02.2000)
• Public lobbying success: Seven million euro subsidy for Aker Finnyards deal with Greek shipping company (09.02.2000)
• One-year agreements - modest pay rises:
  Engineering and construction sectors first to conclude collective agreements in current round of negotiations (29.01.2000)
• EU bans subsidies after 31.12.2000: Subsidised South Korean dockyards a threat to Western European shipbuilding (08.01.2000)
• A new example of the shipbuilding industry dilemma: Subsidy and an order for nearly FIM 1 bn - or no subsidy and a risk to more than 1,100 jobs (08.01.2000)

  "Barometer" examines industrial realtions in Baltic states [eironline]
  Strike levels fall in 1999 [eironline]
  Action programme launched to promote "ability to cope" at work [eironline]
  SAK computer campaign proves successful [eironline]
  European working time conference held in Helsinki [eironline]