Tag: strikes

Workers win more purchasing power

Norwegian labour leaders and industrial employers were heaving sighs of relief on Saturday, and probably getting some badly needed sleep. After marathon mediation that...

Strike ends in culture sector

After more than seven weeks on the picket line, hundreds of employees at 15 publicly owned theaters and concert halls around Norway are heading...

Strike in culture sector drags on

An ongoing strike by nearly 900 workers in several theaters and concert halls around Norway is now threatening upcoming Christmas performances. A meeting with...

Strike in cultural sector drags on

More performances were cancelled at theaters and the opera in Norway, after a strike by workers in the cultural sector expanded and dragged into...

Strike in cultural sector enters sixth day

A total of 220 opera, theater and orchestra employees in Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger remained on strike this week, forcing cancellation of performances that...

Nurses call off hospital strike

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...

Hospital nurses remain on strike

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...

Strike shutdowns incite union fury

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....

State orders some strikers back to work

Some but not all of the striking municipal workers around Norway were being ordered back to work late Friday afternoon. Labour Minister Torbjørn Røe...

Strike spreads to state hospitals

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...
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