Tag: strikes
New settlements avert more strikes
Labour representatives for more than 32,000 workers in Norway's retail and service industries came to terms with the workers' employers organization Virke on Tuesday....
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...
Labour federations call off strike
UPDATED: Thousands of striking Norwegian workers in a variety of sectors are returning to work, instead of taking part in more labour demonstrations on...
Nationwide strikes set to spread
Norway's largest trade union federations are already planning to expand the major strikes that began all over the country on Monday. Another 15,000 workers...
‘Bonus bonanza’ behind major strike
Norwegian labour leaders and employers' representatives fundamentally disagree over whether a 5.2 percent wage increase would have given workers the "real pay growth" they...
Major strikes loom from Sunday
Nearly 23,000 workers at hundreds of companies nationwide may be called out on strike from Sunday, if mediation fails between Norway's large trade union...
New strike averted at SAS
Travelers and management at Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) could breathe a sigh of relief Tuesday night after the deeply troubled carrier avoided another strike, this...
Day care center strike ends
Nearly 4,000 workers in privately operated day care centers ended a five-week-long nationwide strike this week and could head back to work, finally armed...
Day care center strike set to expand
More than a thousand employees of privately-operated day care centers walked off the job on Monday, with another thousand due to follow them from...
Teachers ordered back to work
Norway's labour minister, Marte Mjøs Persen, is from the Labour Party herself and usually honours workers' right to strike. On Tuesday evening, though, she...
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