Talks aim to head off bank strike
June 6, 2011
Negotiators for bank employers and employees in Norway were huddling on Monday in last-ditch efforts to head off what could be the country’s first bank strike in 35 years. A strike would cause massive disruption of payment systems nationwide. Many Norwegians were lining up at minibanks (automated teller machines) on Monday to get their hands [...]
Football players strike over shoes
May 20, 2011
Norwegian football fans were facing a frustrating weekend, after the union representing players called a strike that forced the cancellation of top league matches scheduled for Sunday and Monday. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) confirmed Friday afternoon that the strike could have been avoided were it not for disagreement over whether players should be allowed to choose [...]
National wage negotiations begin
March 21, 2011
The annual round of pay-related negotiations between Norway’s trade union federations and the national employers’ organization begins this week, with both sides hoping to reach a negotiated agreement before the April 1 deadline. Norwegian media were predicting a relatively calm negotiation period between the Norwegian Federation of Trade Unions (Landsorganisasjonen, LO) and the Confederation of [...]
State orders strikers back to work
July 13, 2010
State health and labour officials stepped into a two-week strike by health care workers around the country on Tuesday, and ordered the strikers back to work. They acted after health authorities claimed the strike was posing a danger to life and health. Government officials used what’s called tvungen lønnsnemnd (compulsory arbitration) to end the strike. [...]
Health care strike spreads again
July 12, 2010
A strike by ambulance personnel and some workers at selected hospitals around Norway dragged into its third week on Monday, and spread over the weekend with another 191 union members walking off the job. More than 500 state health care employees are now on strike from Kristiansand in the south to Tromsø in the north, [...]
Ambulance, hospital strike spreads
July 5, 2010
Unions representing disgruntled ambulance personnel and some hospital workers pulled more of their members out on strike Monday, after a lack of any progress over the weekend in seeking a settlement. Union Yrkesorganisasjon Sentralforbund (YS) said another 146 health care workers, mostly ambulance drivers and other emergency staff, would walk off the job on Monday [...]
New strike hits selected hospitals
June 29, 2010
Another strike threatens to disrupt scheduled surgery and other health care services at various hospitals around Norway. This time it’s ambulance crews, receptionists and various other health care personnel who have walked off the job. Negotiations between employers’ organization Spekter and the unions representing the hospital workers, YS and Delta, broke down during the night [...]
Security guards head back to work
June 20, 2010
Airports and museums re-opened on Monday and cash was getting easier to use once again, after a strike by security guards all over Norway ended over the weekend. A tentative settlement was reached after marathon mediation with state officials. State mediator Kari Gjesteby said the settlement was reached shortly after midnight Saturay, when employers group [...]
Union boss gets bigger raise than Jens
June 18, 2010
A long series of strikes in recent months has generally yielded pay raises of around 3 percent in Norway, and that’s what the Prime Minister has received as well. The head of Norway’s trade union confederation LO, however, has done much better. Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) reported this week that LO boss Roar Flåthen, age [...]
Strike sparks new airport distress
June 18, 2010
Airline passengers were having to stand for as long as two-and-a-half hours in airport security lines at Stavanger’s airport on Friday, because of an ongoing strike by security guards. Hopes rose, though, for a settlement over the weekend as the nationwide strike continued to claim innocent victims all over the country. Travelers missed flights, the [...]
Strike closes Munch Museum
June 17, 2010
A new strike by oil workers in the North Sea was averted on Thursday, but Oslo’s famed Munch Museum was forced to close for the next two days because of another, ongoing strike by security guards in Norway. The museum didn’t have enough guards to protect its collections. The strike by nearly 2,500 security guards [...]
More airports close as strike spreads
June 15, 2010
More airports were forced to close and travelers through Norway’s main airport, Oslo Lufthavn Gardermoen, were being warned to arrive early after several hundred more security guards were pulled out on strike Tuesday. It may also soon be difficult to use cash in shops and restaurants. Nearly 2,500 security guards are now on strike in [...]
The show can go on at the Opera
June 14, 2010
After a week of cancelling performances and disappointing fans, employers and employees at The Norwegian Opera and Ballet settled their differences during the night and were heading back to work. The curtain would go up again for Monday evening’s performance of the ballet Askepott (Cinderella). It was among several performances at the popular Opera House in [...]
Security guards head out on strike
June 11, 2010
Norwegians were bracing for more disruption after negotiations broke down on Friday between employers group NHO Service and the union representing security guards around the country (Arbeidsmandsforbund, NAF). Security control at airports and cash supplies in minibanks are among services that will be affected. No sooner had one major strike ended did another begin. Some [...]
Municipal strike over, not at Opera
June 9, 2010
Norway’s biggest strike in more than 30 years ended on Wednesday, after a hectic and lengthy round of mediation. Nearly 50,000 local government workers all over the country could start returning to work, but striking singers and dancers still aren’t letting the curtain go up at Oslo’s Opera House. Municipal employers group KS said the [...]
