HS analysis|The opposition calls the bill on the export-led wage model a “wage hole law”. Controversial laws tend to get the nickname of the negative, writes political reporter Marko Junkkari.
“Size the opposition is of the common opinion that [Petteri] Orphan the government needs to withdraw this wage gap law“, quoth Chairman of the SDP parliamentary group Titti Tuppurainen on Friday at a press conference on the intermediate question in the parliament.
Center group leader Antti Kurvinen accompanied Tuppurainen by speaking as well from the pay pit.
Chairman of the parliamentary group of the Left Alliance Aino-Kaisa Pekonen said that the right-wing government is cementing female-dominated industries into a wage pit.
“This wage pit model is unacceptable,” Pekonen said.
Opposition the interim question published on Friday concerns the bill brought to the parliament by the government last week, according to which the national conciliator and the conciliation board would not be able to propose wage increases higher than export industries in the future.
Officially, the name of the bill in question is: the law on the mediation of labor disputes and amending the law on the conditions for certain industrial action measures.
The name is quite long and not very catchy.
On Thursday Ylen in A-talk government parties are represented Matias Marttinen (cook) and Will Rydman (ps) didn’t use the official name of the law after all. Instead, they talked from the export-led wage model.
Tytti Tuppurainen used the term in the same conversation wage gap lawwhich was admittedly more striking.
Sdp’s the communications department has apparently had time to consider other name options in addition to the wage pit law.
In A-talk, Tuppurainen also called for the bill for the back winter of equality.
This term, too, has clearly been thought out in advance by the Sdp’s communications department – as evidenced by the fact that several Dem representatives have already had time to use the term in the plenary session of the parliament.
“This threatens to become the back winter of wage equality,” wrote the Sdp MP Juha Viitala in his announcement on Wednesday.
However, the term “back winter of equality” is long and perhaps a little too lyrical. It doesn’t really work in a political fire speech. The first thing that comes to mind is that it could be a television series Game of Thrones or The Handmaid’s Tale episode name.
So the Dems seem to lean towards the wage gap law in their communication.
Disputed and bills that stir up a lot of political passion tend to get a nickname. For example, accepted in the summer law on temporary measures to combat instrumentalized immigration got the name conversion law.
The motion mentioned in the government program of Petteri Orpo (cok) about making the first day of sick leave unpaid was named in the SAK’s brainstorming session sickness fine.
According to the current law, the dismissal of an employee requires a compelling and factual reason. According to the government’s program, the regulation of grounds for dismissal related to a person should be changed so that in the future only a valid reason would be sufficient to terminate an employment contract.
This government project is named in SAK fired.
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Bills that arouse political passions tend to get a nickname.
Examples pithy nicknames for bills abound. When the care workers threatened to go on strike in the fall of 2022, Sanna Marini (sd) Parliament enacted on the government’s proposal temporary law on securing essential health care and home care during industrial action.
This was named in the nursing trade unions into forced labor.
An even more effective nickname was coercive lawwhich was discussed in the fall of 2015. Then the prime minister Juha Sipilä (central) threatened that if the labor market parties cannot reach an agreement on a cooperation agreement that lowers unit labor costs, the government will take the corresponding measures with mandatory legislation.
Sipilä’s government threatened to make sick days unpaid, like the current government, and also to cut vacation pay and the longest annual vacations. Epiphany and Maundy Thursday would have turned into unpaid holidays.
The wage earners’ organizations were able to attract tens of thousands of demonstrators to Helsinki’s Rautatientori to oppose the Sipilä government’s coercive laws – which was certainly partly helped by the catchy nickname.
Bills nicknames are all about mental images and often direct political propaganda.
However, for some reason in Finland, the opposition or some other entity opposing the laws is almost always responsible for coming up with nicknames for the bills. The nickname almost always gives a negative image of the content of the law.
The ruling parties are usually content to use the correct or at least semi-official name of the laws, such as the export-led wage model.
This is perhaps a little surprising, because of course the governing parties also want to influence public opinion.
For example, in the United States, the naming of bills is often done in an overtly political manner. In the name of the law, an attempt is made to arouse positive feelings in voters.
For example, Congress is currently considering a bill to cut certain social benefits from people who already receive a pension from the state or local government. The name of this bill is Social Security Fairness Act i.e. the law on fair social security.
Orpo’s government could perhaps have tried to name its bill on the export-driven wage model in a positive way, for example “the law on the fair export-driven wage model”.
Although the name might not be factually correct, it would be harder to be with it in A-talk.
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