“Democracy is not a freeze-frame. It’s a continual process,” former President of Finland  Tarja Halonen told participants at the recent Nordic Freelance Seminar. The annual conference was held this year on Suomenlinna Island 15-16 September, and Halonen was one of the guest speakers. The seminar, which drew some 200 participants, examined the future of freelancingRead More

The recent congress of the Nordic Federation of Journalists, the network for journalists unions in the Nordic area, passed the baton to the UJF to lead the organization for the next two years. UJF president Hanne Aho is its new chairperson. The federation’s vice chair is freelance journalist Heikki Jokinen, and its general secretary isRead More

The UJF has welcomed the change to the government’s draft budget, which allows people to use the unemployment benefit they receive to start self-employment. According to the government, the act on unemployment will be amended so that self-employment would not be considered in terms of being a primary or secondary occupation for the first fourRead More