After more than seven weeks on the picket line, hundreds of employees at 15 publicly owned theaters and concert halls around Norway are heading back to work this week. They finally won better pension plans, after years of negotiations and help from the state mediator. The strike had kept expanding, just as theater and concert […]
Strike in culture sector drags on
October 22, 2021
An ongoing strike by nearly 900 workers in several theaters and concert halls around Norway is now threatening upcoming Christmas performances. A meeting with the state mediator this week failed to bring the two sides together, meaning the strike is likely to spread next week. The workers are demanding better pension plans, especially for female […]
Strike in cultural sector drags on
September 10, 2021
More performances were cancelled at theaters and the opera in Norway, after a strike by workers in the cultural sector expanded and dragged into its second week. A total of 435 workers were out on picket lines heading into the weekend, demanding better pension benefits. The strike does not involve actors, dancers, singers or musicians, […]
Strike in cultural sector enters sixth day
September 6, 2021
A total of 220 opera, theater and orchestra employees in Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger remained on strike this week, forcing cancellation of performances that only recently had started up again after Corona shutdowns. At issue are disputed pension plans. Among state-supported institutions affected are the Norwegian Opera & Ballet, Det Norske Teatret and the National […]
Nurses call off hospital strike
June 17, 2021
Norway’s national nurses’ union (Sykepleierforbundet), fearing they’d be ordered into another round of compulsory arbitration, decided to call off their strike at state-run hospitals around the country and enter into voluntary negotiations. That way they’ll at least be able to appoint their own negotiators. “We received a warning that one duty slot at Oslo University Hospital […]
Hospital nurses remain on strike
June 11, 2021
Norwegian nurses working at state-run hospitals remained on strike heading into the weekend, even after their colleagues at the local level were ordered back to work. The state nurses may also wind up being forced into compulsory arbitration, if their strike is deemed to pose a threat to life and health. “We really don’t have […]
Strike shutdowns incite union fury
June 8, 2021
Norway’s conservative government acted again this week to shut down remaining strikes by thousands of nurses, teachers and other public sector workers around Norway. They claimed the strikes put life and health at risk, but disgusted strikers and their leaders claim it’s all a sham to force them back to work and accept the same […]
State orders some strikers back to work
June 4, 2021
Some but not all of the striking municipal workers around Norway were being ordered back to work late Friday afternoon. Labour Minister Torbjørn Røe Isaksen of the Conservative Party determined that the strike posed a threat to life and health, a stance strike leaders strongly disputed. Isaksen called trade union federation Unio and the national […]
Strike spreads to state hospitals
June 4, 2021
Nurses already out on strike at the local level were joined Friday by 607 nurses working in various state-controlled hospitals around Norway. Mediation between their unions and employers organization Spekter failed, pulling nurses and other health care workers off the job at several large hospitals around the country. The first phase of the strike affects […]
Thousands more head out on strike
June 2, 2021
More than 20,000 public sector employees, many of them teachers and nurses, are now on strike in Norway after municipal employers refused to take the initiative for renewed negotiations. The teachers and nurses especially can claim public support even after, or perhaps because of, a difficult Corona year. Many schools and day care centers all […]
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