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NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway’s Labour Party led the government for the last eight years but has shown several new sides of itself after it landed back in the opposition last fall. It seems to be changing its position on a variety of issues as it becomes, ironically enough, more climate- and environmentally oriented after the looming […]
The Norwegian Labour Party made it official on Monday, that its elections committee unanimously supports Jonas Gahr Støre as their next leader. Støre said he made up his mind to accept such an offer while sitting on top of the mountain known as Hallingskarvet, after first getting the go-ahead he needed from his family. “It’s […]
After 12 hours of overtime negotiations on Saturday, the representatives for harbor employees and dockworkers reached a settlement on wage issues that averted a strike threatened to begin during the weekend. They have not agreed, however, on how the settlement won by the labour organization, Norsk Transportarbeiderforbund (NTF), will affect operations at habors run by […]
In addition to looming strikes at both Norwegian Air and 69 hotels nationwide next week, harbor workers are threatening to walk off the job and otherwise disrupt the loading and unloading of cargo vessels at harbors around the country. Labour organizations warned that a strike could be called from midnight on Friday. Labour conflicts have […]
It’s strike season in Norway, and unionized members of the hotel- and restaurant branch became the latest on Wednesday to decide to walk off the job next week. The strike will affect 69 hotels in Norway’s largest cities, just as the bicentennial celebrations climax in the run-up to the 17th of May holiday. The strike […]
PHOTO FEATURE: The weather was nothing short of spectacular when thousands of Norwegians turned out for May Day -Labour Day festivities in Oslo on Thursday. That clearly helped spur the large turnout in Oslo, and in Bergen and other cities where the sun was shining. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that the turnout at Youngstorget, the […]
More than 600,000 employees of state and local governments may walk off the job from May 26 if they fail to iron out their differences with their public sector employers. Negotiations broke off on Wednesday, sending all the labour and employer organizations involved into mandatory arbitration. Now it will be up to state mediators to […]
The exploitation of foreign workers in Norway who are willing to work for less pay than Norwegians is becoming more widespread and more serious, according to employment lawyers. On the eve of Labour Day, a day of working class rallies over political and labour issues in the country, employment law expert Rune Berg said many […]
May Day is Labour Day in Norway, with a capital “L.” Both the Labour Party and the country’s major trade union confederation LO have been busy planning their speeches, parades and flag-waving for the annual May 1st holiday on Thursday, their first without government power in eight years. “No to privatization and welfare cuts!” “Keep […]
Three former ministers from the Labour Party plus two state secretaries were able to claim lucrative severance payments after their own labours in government, reported newspaper VG this week. The newspaper documented how they all managed to collect the state’s maximum amount of severance pay while they pursued or set up new employment ventures. All […]
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