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Labour’s day on the First of May

Politicians from the Norwegian Labour Party planned to be out in force on Friday, the 1st of May, working hard on the national Labour Day holiday...

Labour launches pricey new plans

NEWS ANALYSIS: The Norwegian Labour Party threw what an opposition politician likened to a "home alone" party during the weekend. Under new leadership, the party...

Political support for more Syrians

The Norwegian Labour Party signaled on Thursday that there's now a majority in Parliament for Norway to accept as many as 10,000 more refugees from Syria who can...

Labour’s leader gathers his flock

Jonas Gahr Støre, the former foreign minister who now heads the Norwegian Labour Party, will be leading the party's annual national meeting for the...

Welfare boss fired after huge losses

The boss of Norway's huge social welfare and employment agency NAV was relieved of his duties on Friday after more criticism of NAV's operations....

Unions agree to forego wage hikes

This year's first phase of annual wage negotiations between Norwegian trade union federations and employer organizations ended with an historically low settlement for key...

Critics bite into union boss

It was not a good week for union boss Gerd Kristiansen, the tough-talking head of Norway's largest labour federation LO. It started with attacks on her...

Employer reps log high incomes

As employer representatives and labour leaders sat down this week to negotiate annual wage settlements for workers, their own incomes were under scrutiny as...

LO leader earns more than Erna

Gerd Kristiansen, leader of Norway's largest trade union federation LO, earns more than Prime Minister Erna Solberg, according to a new survey of labour leaders'...

Work rules eased, no one pleased

UPDATED: Neither the labour movement nor employer representatives were happy after Norway's conservative two-party government struck a deal Thursday with its support parties in...
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