The BBC reports that almost 13,000 nurses in Finland are threatening to resign in a pay dispute. A union claim for a 24% rise over 28 months has been met by an employer offer of 12%, which the nurses' union argues will leave its members struggling to survive.
The BBC news website quotes a Finnish union official as saying:
"Thousands have moved to Sweden and especially Norway since the 1990s because salaries there are so much better."
The mass resignations would be the biggest industrial action in Finland's recent history, says the BBC. But there is some doubt about whether the 12,800 signatures collected by the nurses' union will be accepted as resignation letters under Finnish law. The BBC quotes a union spokeswoman as saying that "a court case is possible".
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