The board of Efling has approved significant reforms in the operations of the union office that will be implemented in the coming months. The changes were introduced at a staff meeting on September 2. All staff retain their jobs, and some new positions will be added as part of the changes. The main elements of the changes are as follows: A new Legal Department will supervise collection cases. This entails the creation of two new positions: a lawyer and a legal aid. The department is under the CEO. A new Labor Market and Membership Affairs Department will be in charge of guarding members’ interests vis-à-vis employers, including collective bargaining, casework, and support to union reps. The department is under the chairman. The Department of Labor Rights as well as the Department of Education and Membership Affairs are discontinued. A new Operations Department will oversee all major shared infrastructure of the office. Alongside the founding of the department, a new position of HR representative will be created. The Department is under the CEO. New and available positions will be advertised. Alongside the changes, the following internal staffing changes are made: Rínar Magnússon, formerly director of the Service Department, will become Director of the Operations Department. Sigrún Helga Kristjánsdóttir will replace Rínar as head of the Service Department. Viðar Þorsteinsson will become the Director of the Labor Market and Membership Affairs Department. New hirings, along with training and preparations, will take place in the coming months. Final implementation of the changes is planned to be complete no later than January 1, 2027. “These changes have been under consideration for a while, and I view them as the final episode of the journey begun in 2022. The changes are intended to strengthen the ties of our office operations to the members and support their empowerment better. I also welcome that, with increased capacity, we can insource tasks and thus make more efficient use of union funds,” said Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir, chairman of Efling Union.
Tickets for Food and Culture, Efling’s annual food and cultural festival, go on sale today, Monday 14 September, at 12:00 noon. The festival will be held for the fourth time on Sunday 27 September at Efling’s Community Centre at Guðrúnartún 1. Guests can enjoy a wide variety of dishes from around the world, prepared by Efling members. Tickets are limited , so we encourage people to get theirs as soon as possible. Tickets are available through Efling’s My Pages.
Miðasala á Mat og menningu, árlega matar- og menningarhátíð Eflingar, hefst í dag, mánudaginn 14. september, klukkan 12:00. Hátíðin verður haldin í fjórða sinn sunnudaginn 27. september í Félagsheimili Eflingar, Guðrúnartúni 1. Þar geta gestir notið fjölbreyttra rétta frá ólíkum heimshornum, eldaðra af Eflingarfélögum. Takmarkað magn miða er í boði , svo við hvetjum fólk til að tryggja sér miða sem fyrst. Miðasalan fer fram á Mínum síðum Eflingar.
