Gender equality as a factor for growth

av | dec 5, 2015 | NFU Blog

NFU Blog 2015-12-05NFU Blog Lately I have come across several articles published in Nordic, European and international papers about gender equality in the financial sectors. In many ways, gender equality is improving in the Nordic financial sectors, especially in...

Keep the field level

av | nov 5, 2015 | NFU Blog

NFU Blog 2015-11-05NFU Blog Imagine if the football field was a hill and your favourite team always had to play upwards in the slope. Finance is not football (although sometimes I wish it was, so I could blame the referee when things go wrong). But the need for a...

Wage-setting and the future of the Nordic model

av | aug 5, 2015 | NFU Blog

NFU Blog 2015-08-05NFU Blog One of the advantages with my job is that it tends to take me to occasions where I meet people who really discuss the big questions. Recently I was in Oslo for a seminar arranged by the Council of Nordic Trade Unions (NFS). It was a seminar...

Finance as if the future matters

av | jul 5, 2015 | NFU Blog

NFU Blog 2015-07-05NFU Blog Climate campaigning cannot remain a luxury, it needs to become union business as climate change will mean the biggest industrial change of our generation. This is what UNI Global Union’s General Secretary Philip Jennings stated in a recent...

Autumn brings challenges for NFU

av | jul 5, 2015 | NFU Blog

NFU Blog NFU Blog Autumn often means new challenges, and here is one of the most important ones for NFU this year: the programme of the new European Commission. It will be led by Jean-Claude Juncker, the Christian-Democratic former prime minister of Luxembourg. As...

A new start for Europe?

av | jun 6, 2015 | NFU Blog

NFU Blog 2015-06-06NFU Blog The new European Parliament has started to settle during summer. The expectations on a high turnout in this year’s EU elections were greater than usual with more debates in media with politicians and experts giving their views on all the...