Labour federations call off strike
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- 27 Apr 2023
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That ended a major nationwide strike that had been due to expand on Friday. LO had called out an additional 16,561 workers, on top of the nearly 25,000 striking since early Monday morning. Both LO and NHO confirmed that they had agreed on a new wage agreement, even as they scrambled to finalize details.
“The strike is ending immediately,” read a joint press release, “and people can go back to work as soon as they can.” Not everyone initially, though, since trade union federation YS still hadn’t come to terms with NHO. That meant members of YS-organizations would continue to strike pending results of new “dialogue” with NHO, but they lso ended up settling Thursday evening.
LO leader Peggy Hessen Følsvik, meanwhile, was smiling on her way to a meeting with the national mediator before holding a press conference Thursday evening. She scored a major victory in her battle to get management at companies all over Norway to share more of their profits with their employees. Følsvik and the leaders of several other trade union federations had demanded pay raises high enough to at least give workers real wage growth after two years of seeing modest pay hikes eaten up by sharply rising prices, interest rates and energy costs. Read More…
