APN podcast: Working to survive in Finland
All Points North hears from nurses who say the Finnish healthcare system is on life support as low pay repels people from the sector. The show also finds out what types of jobs Ukrainians are landing in Finland.
YLE NEWS
7.4. 07:30
A wave of strikes is sweeping over Finland, as people try to make a dent in the cost of living crisis.
Paper workers are out on strike at UPM, municipal staff are taking industrial action across the country—and a major nurses' strike is exposing cracks in the Finnish healthcare system.
"We are obviously striking because of the poor pay. I think everyone should be able to have a wage that's a living wage. My base salary because I've worked for a long time is about 2,600 euros and that's before taxes," Helsinki nurse Minna Clements said of her reasons for joining the ongoing healthcare strike.
She told APN that the chronic shortage of trained nurses was putting the entire system at risk. "If we want to have universal healthcare, like we do at the moment, if we don't do anything, it's just going to disappear. I guess you won't miss it until you need it and you don't have it."
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