Let me iceplain this – Lífskjarasamningur / Standard of Living Agreement – part 1

This is an introduction to a series of videos on the strike in 2019 and the resulting Standard of Living Agreement. In the first video I talk about the history of the agreement why it is revolutionary (for Iceland) and how foreign workers played a key part in making it happen.

Demands towards the employers: https://iwwisland.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/sgs-demands-for-collective-agreements-with-sa.pdf

Standard of Living Agreement in English: https://iwwisland.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/lifskjarasamningurinn-2019-2022_en.pdf

The government promises for the Standard of Living Agreement: https://www.government.is/news/article/?newsid=6c3fcdd8-765b-11e9-943c-005056bc530c (English and Polish)