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Today in Norway: A roundup of the latest news on Wednesday
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Today in Norway: A roundup of the latest news on Wednesday
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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.
Striking Unio members outside the new city library in downtown Oslo. PHOTO: Unio
Many schools and day care centers all over the country were closed again on Wednesday, and not because of Corona restrictions this time. Teachers are tired of having much lower income growth, as much as 14 percent less by some calculations, than other municipal employees. So are nurses, who continue to claim that their pay is so low that it’s difficult to recruit young people to the profession.
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 organization for municipal employers, KS, into a meeting Friday afternoon. Around an hour later the government confirmed that it was proposing forced mediation to settle the strike.
“The meeting showed that it wasn’t possible for the two sides to find a solution in this acute situation,” Isaksen said. The “concrete threat” allegedly posed by the strike apparently involved the risk of a major fire at a garbage processing facility in Fredrikstad.
More teachers and nurses go on strike
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