Date of birth
9 April 1966
Area of operation
Reykjavik and environs
Workplace, job title and education
Programmer at Prógramm ehf. I have worked in various jobs in the food industry, both in meat processing and retail. Then later, I changed course and started working in the computer industry. I have worked as a programmer at Prógramm ehf. for the past thirteen years.
I attended the computer course at Iðnskólinn í Reykjavík, as well as took several courses at Reykjavík University in computer science. I am also a trained butcher, with a master’s degree in meat processing.
Email:
addisig@simnet.is
Experience in community engagement
I have diverse experience in community engagement. When I did my vocational training, I was active in the wage term negotiations for apprentices, both with my colleagues in the apprentice union and also at my workplace. After my vocational training, I continued to participate in wage issues with the Icelandic Meat Processor’s Association for several years. I have also been active within sports associations as a volunteer and sat on the Board of Breiðablik’s athletics department, chaired the Icelandic Athletics Association for two years and have sat on the board of Breiðablik. I have also spent considerable time being involved in municipal issues. There, I have had the opportunity to become familiar with various committee jobs for Kópavogur municipality. First and foremost, I have been a member of the Kópavogur Social Affairs Committee, and later, the Kópavogur Welfare Committee, as well as taking a seat as an alternate in the Kópavogur Town Council and the Kópavogur Municipal Council. I have served on the Board of VR as a member from 2018–2021 and served as an alternate from 2021–2022. I have also participated in various committee activities for VR.
Main focuses
- To protect the rights and interests of all members.
- To further shorten the working week.
- To increase sick leave due to children’s illness.
- To ensure that the minimum wage will be based on people being able to live with dignity in society.
- To review VR’s fund system with a view to expanding the use of grants from VR’s Reserve Fund, and at the same time, increasing the number of categories that are exempt from income tax, such as expenses for medical and dental services.
- To make a social pact for the labour movement to eliminate poverty in Iceland.
- To purposefully withdraw the pension funds from investments in the Icelandic economy to focus more on the development of residential housing in co-operation with construction companies that are not profit-driven.
- To ensure that VR continues to work diligently on housing issues with other trade unions and thus create a healthy rental market for the public with minimal returns.
- To fight for housing prices to be removed from the indexes.