Jun 5, 2014
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Hours before state and local government workers were due to initiate strike actions, negotiators reached two new collective agreements, with a third being expected soon.
Hours before state and local government workers were due to initiate strike actions, negotiators reached two new collective agreements, with a third being expected soon. As negotiations progressed slowly, local, Oslo municipal and state level public sector workers announced industrial action. After over-night negotiations, however, the local level workers reached an agreement for a 3.3% wage increase and no changes in the organisations’ pay systems. Within hours, the state level agreement was reached as well and Oslo municipal workers are expected to settle soon.
English: http://www.newsinenglish.no/2014/05/26/local-strikes-averted-state-talks-go-on/
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.