ship's 2022

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2022 was a Long year for many reasons.



2022 was the first year I participated a strike and marched on the streets for my union. Hashtag #nursetoo trended because after two covid years, the employer side didn't want to raise our wages and were actually more intent on pushing forward martial law that would strip health care workers from our basic rights. Cool times! We were without the collective labor agreement for most of the year and the smearing campaign that went on in the media (targeting especially our union head) was interesting to say the least. You'd think that after everything that's happened, lying at nurses' faces and trying to pull the rug under our feet would be the last thing in TPTB's minds but... yeah. We're experiencing a global nurse shortage and the hospital districts and municipalities still seem to think they can do whatever because there's a long line of new nurses queueing behind their door (spoiler alert: there isn't).





2022 we finally had the chance to have a Pride parade! W00t! It was way more colorful than the one before covid, a lot more people in costumes, loads of flags, a fuckton of trans representation. A happy happy day indeed.




I took my mom to see Hans Op de Beeck's The Quiet Parade and she loved it to bits. It's a beautiful intense, surreal, and as the name says, a silent experience. I'm definitely going to see it again before the exhibition closes.

Comments

[lokifan]

Haha I love that flag! And the exhibition pic is amazing.

There is power in a union :DDD

[shipperslist]

There really is power in a union, and Finland has strong unions. (Perhaps not that much fun for the employer side but eh, sucks to be them, I guess.)