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 Opið bréf til hæstvirts innviðaráðherra, Eyjólfs Ármannssonar, um íslensku og ábyrgð Nichole Leigh Mosty Skoðun Embætti þitt geta allir séð Ragnheiður Davíðsdóttir Skoðun Hver á dómur að vera hjá ungmenni fyrir að fremja alvarlegt afbrot, jafnvel morð? Davíð Bergmann Skoðun Er kominn tími á Útlendingafrí? Marion Poilvez Skoðun Immigrant Women: Essential Workers, Rising Voices on Labor Day Maru Alemán Skoðun Janus og jakkalakkarnir Óskar Guðmundsson Skoðun Myndir þú ráða fatlað fólk í vinnu? Alma Ýr Ingólfsdóttir Skoðun Samtalið um dauðann veldur okkur óöryggi Ingrid Kuhlman Skoðun Börnin á Gasa Ebba Margrét Magnúsdóttir Skoðun 1. maí er líka fyrir fatlað fólk! Geirdís Hanna Kristjánsdóttir Skoðun Skoðun Skoðun Embætti þitt geta allir séð Ragnheiður Davíðsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Opið bréf til hæstvirts innviðaráðherra, Eyjólfs Ármannssonar, um íslensku og ábyrgð Nichole Leigh Mosty skrifar Skoðun Hver á dómur að vera hjá ungmenni fyrir að fremja alvarlegt afbrot, jafnvel morð? Davíð Bergmann skrifar Skoðun Sigursaga Evrópu í 21 ár Pawel Bartoszek skrifar Skoðun Verkalýðshreyfingin, Dagbjört og ESB Hjörtur J. Guðmundsson skrifar Skoðun Börnin á Gasa Ebba Margrét Magnúsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Myndir þú ráða fatlað fólk í vinnu? Alma Ýr Ingólfsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Hvað ert þú að gera? Eiður Welding skrifar Skoðun Rauðir sokkar á 1. maí Sveinn Ólafsson skrifar Skoðun 1. maí er líka fyrir fatlað fólk! Geirdís Hanna Kristjánsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Verkalýðshreyfingin á næsta leik í Evrópuumræðunni Dagbjört Hákonardóttir skrifar Skoðun Á milli steins og sleggju Heinemann Ólafur Stephensen skrifar Skoðun Heiðrum íslenska hestinn Berglind Margo Þorvaldsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Allir eiga rétt á virku lífi — líka fatlað fólk Anna Margrét Bjarnadóttir skrifar Skoðun Er kominn tími á Útlendingafrí? Marion Poilvez skrifar Skoðun Janus og jakkalakkarnir Óskar Guðmundsson skrifar Skoðun Jafnréttisbaráttan er brýnni en nokkru sinni fyrr Kolbrún Halldórsdóttir,Sunna Kristín Símonardóttir skrifar Skoðun Hvað ætlar þú að vera þegar þú verður stór? Ása Berglind Hjálmarsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Samtalið um dauðann veldur okkur óöryggi Ingrid Kuhlman skrifar Skoðun Sköpum störf við hæfi! Unnur Hrefna Jóhannsóttir skrifar Skoðun Immigrant Women: Essential Workers, Rising Voices on Labor Day Maru Alemán skrifar Skoðun Tikkað í skipulagsboxin Samúel Torfi Pétursson skrifar Skoðun Það sem er ósagt varðandi vinnubrögð hjá Háskólanum á Akureyri Þóra Sigurðardóttir skrifar Skoðun Sjúklingur settur í fangaklefa Arnar Þór Jónsson skrifar Skoðun Opið bréf til fjármálaráðherra, Daða Más Kristóferssonar Íris Róbertsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Ég kalla hann Isildur; mentorinn minn er gervigreind Björgmundur Guðmundsson skrifar Skoðun Hvað er „furry“ annars? Jóhanna Jódís Antonsdóttir skrifar Skoðun Jafnaðarmennskan og verkalýðsbaráttan Sigfús Ómar Höskuldsson skrifar Skoðun Hljóð og mynd íslenskra varna Arnór Sigurjónsson skrifar Skoðun Kveðjur úr Grafarvogi til þeirra sem kasta steinum úr glerhúsi Davíð Már Sigurðsson 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.
Opið bréf til hæstvirts innviðaráðherra, Eyjólfs Ármannssonar, um íslensku og ábyrgð Nichole Leigh Mosty Skoðun
Hver á dómur að vera hjá ungmenni fyrir að fremja alvarlegt afbrot, jafnvel morð? Davíð Bergmann Skoðun
Skoðun Opið bréf til hæstvirts innviðaráðherra, Eyjólfs Ármannssonar, um íslensku og ábyrgð Nichole Leigh Mosty skrifar
Skoðun Hver á dómur að vera hjá ungmenni fyrir að fremja alvarlegt afbrot, jafnvel morð? Davíð Bergmann skrifar
Skoðun Jafnréttisbaráttan er brýnni en nokkru sinni fyrr Kolbrún Halldórsdóttir,Sunna Kristín Símonardóttir skrifar
Skoðun Það sem er ósagt varðandi vinnubrögð hjá Háskólanum á Akureyri Þóra Sigurðardóttir skrifar
Opið bréf til hæstvirts innviðaráðherra, Eyjólfs Ármannssonar, um íslensku og ábyrgð Nichole Leigh Mosty Skoðun
Hver á dómur að vera hjá ungmenni fyrir að fremja alvarlegt afbrot, jafnvel morð? Davíð Bergmann Skoðun