The message is clear, union members of foreign background want more training in English to gain knowledge, meet new people and get help on labour rights issues.

Ten questions from different areas of life. Test your knowledge!

Tammisaari resident Álvaro Corredor Ochoa serves as an assistant coach for the Ekenäs IF football academy team. Coaching is a good counterbalance for his academic job.

As skilled technology workers retire, new talent is needed urgently. Finland’s own population is not enough, and the country must turn to workers from the rest of the world.

“Together, we can create a society where diversity is seen as a strength,” writes Managing Editor Asko-Matti Koskelainen.

The trade union movement is a key builder of Finnish welfare society. In a changing world, the trade union movement stands on the side of workers and society’s weakest members.

The union’s Work Environment Unit oversees a broad range of activities, including occupational safety and health, equality and non-discrimination.

Famifarm in Joroinen, grows herbs and salads for the whole of Finland, all year round. The multinational work community has formed gradually and through referrals by old employees.

The Foreign Labour Unit of the Industrial Union develops the union in matters related to diversity in working life, says Riikka Vasama, who heads the unit.

Finland was the only Nordic country to drop out of the group of best countries in the world for workers, according to the International Trade Union Confederation ITUC.