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8 May, 2000Today, 84,600 private sector workers are going back to work.
NORWAY: Early this morning, May 9, three hours before the strike in the private sector was to be expanded, the LO national trade union center and the employers' organisation accepted a bid from the state mediator for a new collective contract.
The deal, tentative until balloted by union members on May 24, runs for two years and gives the workers an hourly rise of 1.50 Norwegian kroner ($0.18). It is double as much as in the previous agreement, which was rejected by the workers in a ballot. The lower-wage earners are getting an hourly rise of 3.50 Norwegian kroner, which also is double that of the rejected agreement. The additional four days of vacation (making it five weeks altogether) will be introduced more rapidly, with two days already in 2001 and two days in 2002. The employers have also accepted union demands for funding for further education.
For background information, see previous IMF news items.
The deal, tentative until balloted by union members on May 24, runs for two years and gives the workers an hourly rise of 1.50 Norwegian kroner ($0.18). It is double as much as in the previous agreement, which was rejected by the workers in a ballot. The lower-wage earners are getting an hourly rise of 3.50 Norwegian kroner, which also is double that of the rejected agreement. The additional four days of vacation (making it five weeks altogether) will be introduced more rapidly, with two days already in 2001 and two days in 2002. The employers have also accepted union demands for funding for further education.
For background information, see previous IMF news items.