We Are Foreign and We Feel Welcome in Efling Union Barbara Sawka, Ian McDonald, Innocentia Fiati Fridgeirsson, Karla Barralaga Ocón og Sæþór Benjamín Randalsson skrifa 23. apríl 2022 12:31 We the undersigned are all born outside of Iceland. What we also have in common is that we are all doing low wage jobs and are therefore members of Efling Union. We have all experienced discrimination and xenophobia in Iceland. We speak with accents and some of us are not white, and therefore we get asked questions like "hvaðan ertu?" and our most used phrase for Icelanders is "talarðu ensku?". Some of us have experienced much worse abuse and disrespect. We have often been made to feel like second class citizens. One place where we haven't felt discrimination, however, is Efling Union. As active Efling members, we are now used to going to union events, meetings and rallies where we see faces and hear languages that make us feel that we are among fellow immigrants. We have noticed and appreciated changes like making the Efling website available in English and Polish, having live English interpretation at events, conducting parts of union rep courses in English, and choosing members of foreign origin for important roles of responsibility in the union. All of this has made us feel welcome and included, much more so than in most other places in Icelandic society. These changes did not come out of thin air. They were part of the program of the B-list headed by Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir in 2018 and again in 2022, a program that has set the mark high and fought every step of the way for fulfilling its promises. Sólveig has time and again insisted on inclusion and respect for foreign Efling members. Therefore, we find it truly shocking to be now witnessing claims that Sólveig is prejudiced against foreigners. It needs to be said honestly that this is a cynical lie, fabricated by enemies who are desperately looking for ways to damage Sólveig and the B-list. Of course we still do not have full equality and inclusion for foreign workers in Iceland, and even Efling Union can do better. We, however, are not going to let opportunists misrepresent the very real positive changes that have been made in our union towards visibility, power, and respect for immigrants. Our message to those who sling false accusations of this kind are: Direct your anger to the real xenophobes in Iceland. Authors are members of Efling Union. Viltu birta grein á Vísi? Sendu okkur póst. Senda grein Ólga innan Eflingar Stéttarfélög Mest lesið Carbfix: Stærsta framlag Íslands í loftslagsmálum heimsins Sævar Freyr Þráinsson Skoðun Mengum meira Heiðar Guðjónsson Skoðun Fögnum á degi líffræðilegrar fjölbreytni Rannveig Magnúsdóttir,Ragnhildur Guðmundsdóttir,Skúli Skúlason,Ole Sandberg,Sæunn Júlía Sigurjónsdóttir Skoðun Hvað verður um Kára? Helga Sigrún Harðardóttir Skoðun Sigmundi Davíð svarað Björn Bjarnason Skoðun Coda Terminal hefur ekki áhrif á neysluvatnsból höfuðborgarsvæðisins Sigrún Tómasdóttir Skoðun Ferðatryggingar og val á kreditkorti Svandís Edda Hólm Jónudóttir Skoðun Af hverju leka gluggar fyrr en áður? Böðvar Bjarnason Skoðun Halldór 05.07.2024 Halldór Að óttast blokkir Ásta Logadóttir Skoðun Skoðun Skoðun Carbfix: Stærsta framlag Íslands í loftslagsmálum heimsins Sævar Freyr Þráinsson skrifar Skoðun Sigmundi Davíð svarað Björn Bjarnason skrifar Skoðun Coda Terminal hefur ekki áhrif á neysluvatnsból höfuðborgarsvæðisins Sigrún Tómasdóttir skrifar Skoðun Líf og dauði leikur á hnífsegg Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Mengum meira Heiðar Guðjónsson skrifar Skoðun Hvað verður um Kára? Helga Sigrún Harðardóttir skrifar Skoðun Að eiga tertuna og borða hana líka – svar til formanns Hildur Sverrisdóttir skrifar Skoðun Hik er sama og tap Ingólfur Sverrisson skrifar Skoðun Af hverju leka gluggar fyrr en áður? Böðvar Bjarnason skrifar Skoðun Hluta þjóðarinnar hent út í kuldann – hinn baðar sig í sólinni Ole Anton Bieltvedt skrifar Skoðun Að óttast blokkir Ásta Logadóttir skrifar Skoðun Engin gúrka hjá Blaðamannafélaginu Sigríður Dögg Auðunsdóttir,Freyja Steingrímsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Stórnotendur eru kjölfestan í íslenska raforkukerfinu Guðríður Eldey Arnardóttir skrifar Skoðun Ert þú í góðu netsambandi? Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Evrópa og myrkrið framundan Hilmar Þór Hilmarsson skrifar Skoðun Heilræði fyrir Nýhaldið Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson skrifar Skoðun Glútenlaust gull á grillið Anna Gunndís Guðmundsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Kaupin á eyrinni Hjörtur J. Guðmundsson skrifar Skoðun Lokunaruppboð í Kauphöllinni Baldur Thorlacius skrifar Skoðun Viðreisn mun leggja fram tillögu um íbúakosningu um Coda Terminal verkefnið í Hafnarfirði Jón Ingi Hákonarson skrifar Skoðun Ferðatryggingar og val á kreditkorti Svandís Edda Hólm Jónudóttir skrifar Skoðun Af hverju að byggja Coda Terminal? Ólafur Elínarson,Sandra Ósk Snæbjörnsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Hljóð úr horni Ingólfur Sverrisson skrifar Skoðun ESB fyrir almenning Oddný G. Harðardóttir skrifar Skoðun Strámaðurinn mikli Kristján Hreinsson skrifar Skoðun Árið er 2024 Halla Signý Kristjánsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Samkeppni í nýju ljósi Páll Hermannsson skrifar Skoðun Það er verið að grafa dýpri fátæktargjá Rúnar Sigurjónsson skrifar Skoðun „Hæ ástin, þarf að millifæra, getur þú samþykkt beiðnina?“ Heiðrún Jónsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Algeng þvæla um Evrópusambandið Jón Frímann Jónsson skrifar Sjá meira
We the undersigned are all born outside of Iceland. What we also have in common is that we are all doing low wage jobs and are therefore members of Efling Union. We have all experienced discrimination and xenophobia in Iceland. We speak with accents and some of us are not white, and therefore we get asked questions like "hvaðan ertu?" and our most used phrase for Icelanders is "talarðu ensku?". Some of us have experienced much worse abuse and disrespect. We have often been made to feel like second class citizens. One place where we haven't felt discrimination, however, is Efling Union. As active Efling members, we are now used to going to union events, meetings and rallies where we see faces and hear languages that make us feel that we are among fellow immigrants. We have noticed and appreciated changes like making the Efling website available in English and Polish, having live English interpretation at events, conducting parts of union rep courses in English, and choosing members of foreign origin for important roles of responsibility in the union. All of this has made us feel welcome and included, much more so than in most other places in Icelandic society. These changes did not come out of thin air. They were part of the program of the B-list headed by Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir in 2018 and again in 2022, a program that has set the mark high and fought every step of the way for fulfilling its promises. Sólveig has time and again insisted on inclusion and respect for foreign Efling members. Therefore, we find it truly shocking to be now witnessing claims that Sólveig is prejudiced against foreigners. It needs to be said honestly that this is a cynical lie, fabricated by enemies who are desperately looking for ways to damage Sólveig and the B-list. Of course we still do not have full equality and inclusion for foreign workers in Iceland, and even Efling Union can do better. We, however, are not going to let opportunists misrepresent the very real positive changes that have been made in our union towards visibility, power, and respect for immigrants. Our message to those who sling false accusations of this kind are: Direct your anger to the real xenophobes in Iceland. Authors are members of Efling Union.
Fögnum á degi líffræðilegrar fjölbreytni Rannveig Magnúsdóttir,Ragnhildur Guðmundsdóttir,Skúli Skúlason,Ole Sandberg,Sæunn Júlía Sigurjónsdóttir Skoðun
Skoðun Coda Terminal hefur ekki áhrif á neysluvatnsból höfuðborgarsvæðisins Sigrún Tómasdóttir skrifar
Skoðun Viðreisn mun leggja fram tillögu um íbúakosningu um Coda Terminal verkefnið í Hafnarfirði Jón Ingi Hákonarson skrifar
Fögnum á degi líffræðilegrar fjölbreytni Rannveig Magnúsdóttir,Ragnhildur Guðmundsdóttir,Skúli Skúlason,Ole Sandberg,Sæunn Júlía Sigurjónsdóttir Skoðun