Postimees Digest, Saturday, March 9
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Energy unions not happy with conciliator's proposal.
Energy engineers' union Narva Energia has said it will be taking a short break to consider the public conciliator's 8.9 percent salary advance proposal but that it falls well short of demands. "Our proposal is to hike salaryes by 15 percent from January 1 this year and by another 10 percent from January of 2014," said chairman Vladimir Aleksejev.
Energy portal to hold joint purchase campaign.
Electricity prices comparison website energiaturg.ee launched a two-week pilot project yesterday to give consumers to come together in asking energy companies to make them the best offer. The project is based on examples from countries like Great Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium, where the electricity market has been open for a long time.
Swedish girls grab for job in Estonian store
A job in a Tallinn supermarket and housing in somebody’s Kopli flat turned Swedish girls into grown-up women, in a month.
C’mon girls, stick it out! The best pupils get to go to Tallinn! Shelving stuff in Tallinn supermarkets. For five weeks.
Doesn’t sound inviting, does it? Nor like a fun way to relax while at high school. Especially when one dwells in Sweden and all she knows of life in Estonia is based on films like Screwed in Tallinn. A black-humour-laced false documentary on Swedish bachelors seeking wives in Estonia.
However, this is exactly how teachers managed to motivate kids in Westerlundska high school, near Stockholm. And believe it or not – there was quite a rush. And intense competition.
British bachelors in Tallinn: strictly for fun
Anet Oltsmann, a veteran welcomer of British and Scandinavian bachelors in Tallinn, agrees not with claims that it’s them that rule the Old Town night life. All the guys come for is fun and laughter. And their ranks are thinning fast.
Anet Oltsmann (26) manages the Baltic branch of E-Blok Ltd, specialising in housing and entertaining flocks of Western bachelors, and is in the know-how of these matters after eight long years. According to her, the bachelors do indeed come to have fun, but are never into night-time noise or fight-picking.
«They’re abroad, and therefore quite reserved in their conduct. Indeed, a bit vulgar they may be while relaxing it out, but at any conflict they just totally bury their ego – begging for forgiveness even if it wasn’t their fault, to stay out of trouble. I wonder whence the myth that it’s them who are the chief troublemakers.»