Thursday, February 12/2015

One of the country's nurses' unions stages a 12 hour strike and are told that it's a poor time to ask for increased salary and benefits when 70,000 of their fellow citizens (population under 900,000, many of whom, obviously, are not in the labour force) are unemployed. At the same time students are protesting. Not much sympathy from those writing to the editor, but their complaint that it costs over €100 (£74, $141 CAD) to write the university entrance exams and that this is a hardship for poor families, seems to have some validity.