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Hotel and restaurant strike spreads

An additional 1,487 members of two major trade union organizations have been called off the job at hotels, restaurants and company canteens around the...

Threads of Halden in Norway’s fabric

COMMENTARY: Arts and business, tough guys and women's lib: There's more to Halden than most Norwegians ever think about. "Halden, hmmm," a friend muttered when...

Important labour talks collapsed

Annual wage negotiations between Norway's largest labour- and employer organizations fell apart on Tuesday and had to head into mediation. The last such bargaining...

Labour’s labour minister halts strike

Norway's Labour Party insists that it fully supports workers' rights to strike, but its Labour Minister Tonje Brenna has halted a major strike by...

Strikes hit police, universities, ministries, even weather forecasters

Most threatened strikes have been averted at the last minute in Norway this spring, while some strikers were ordered back to work this week....

New strike threat lurks behind smiles

More wage negotiations got underway heading into the weekend, this time between leaders of public sector employee organizations and Norwegian municipalities. More than 400,000...

Støre and his party now in ‘deep crisis’

NEWS ANALYSIS: Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre walked into the proverbial lion's den on Thursday, when he addressed the Sami Parliament in Karasjok just...

Strikes averted but teachers unhappy

Marathon mediation warded off threatened strikes this week by 3,500 state workers plus lots of municipal employees in cities including Oslo. Most settled for...

Thousands hailed solidarity

Hundreds of thousands of Norwegians turned out all over the country on Sunday to hail freedom, democracy and solidarity at workers' traditional May 1st...

War overshadows tough labour talks

After months of rumbling from both sides, Norwegian trade unions and employer organizations have finally begun what long were expected to be tough negotiations...
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