Finland faces massive strikes over government benefits cuts as farmer protests erupt across Europe

Hundreds of thousands of workers strike across Finland, as unions fight against the government's social welfare changes. It comes as farmers erupt in protest across Europe, rallying for things such as better pay and more protection against cheap imports.

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[MR-xcsw]

Stand up for your rights. You need farmers more than you need politicians.

[parvanehbarron]

Sympathy and understanding of politicians
Really
They all have to go
We stand with farmers

[des]

The minority that makes decisions for the majority to survive needs to come up with better ways to manage the economy in their respective countries

[katelyntavares]

Speak up keep going we need food that is not made in a lab !

[TheBooban]

2:53 she is saying the farmers are angry at the right should they get elected because they would threaten the farmers green issues? Is she crazy? Is this how the media twists things?

[Rantsack]

Everything goes up, but pay is the same.
Then companies complain that they don’t have enough money to pay or hire new people.
But yet, EVERYTHING WENT UP EXCEPT FOR PAY.

[AkivaMerkavah]

I support the interest of the people in this. European nations should prioritize domestic producers before importing cut-rate foodstuffs from elsewhere.

[JoeBlow-yrts]

Congrats Finland. It’s always some wealthy well of person saying the reaction is over scale. Workers know now once cuts start they never stop it’s just the frog in the pot scenario and 40 years later your society is falling apart with massive inequality.

[joshcourt]

10% truth 40% misinformation 50% obfuscation. On the ground/ alternative media does a much better job.

[hera]

Governments should be working in the interest and favor of their People, not themselves or foreign countries. A government placing their interests and favors towards themselves or a foreign country is the basis of Treason.

[Jedi]

this is what it takes for change. the world is fed up.

[janinak]

Over 18, 000 sanctions on Russia at the behest of the US which have spectacularly backfired combined with tarff free grain from Ukraine flooding the market, not to mention the money pouring into Ukraine to pay their employees is having a disastrous effect on citizens of europe.

[MiKa-bsrf]

Absolute and full support for the farmers.

[eileenahern-kunx]

Well done to the farmers.
Ye are not fools. ❤

[agnieszkaolszewska]

Stay strong. In Poland farmers protest, too.

[morion]

"Great agenda?" Wow that doesn't sound dystopian at all.

[ogsuntio]

Living in Finland myself, the strikes really don't have the support of the majority. Within the first waves most shops were open as usual and really only the public transport was stalled. The government here is only proposing to change workers rights to same level as they are in neighboring countries (Sweden, Norway) to help draw more investments to Finland by making us more competetive against others. The workers unions have been on a downward spiral for decades and this seems to be their last gasps of breath helped by the left opposition. And the limiting of strike rights is only meant towards political strikes, which are also banned in almost every EU country. They are not limiting the right to strike against an employer, but the right to strike against policy.

[peterazlac]

It is not due to Russia's war in Ukraine but due to the sanctions imposed on Russia that has put up energy costs needlessly since Russia is still supplying gas and oil under cheap contract prices to those EU countries like Czech, Hungary and Austria that continue to take them whereas Germany and others that could take them since pipelines like Yamal and Brotherhood are still operable but not in use due to deliberate German policy - Russia has offered to supply gas through the remaining Nordstream line that the US failed to blow up but Scholtz has refused. The result is high cost diesel and a lack of fertilizers that farmers need except at substantially higher prices What does Finland expect when they turn their back on the lucrative Russian market to join NATO and so have become an economic backwater of the EU like the Baltic States that have the same plight.

[serenus]

We can certainly survive without politicians, but we won't survive without farmers.

[Jupiterloobncj]

Farmers are the most essentials of society