The Norwegian Aircraft Technician Organization (NFO) demands that the chairman of the board of NHO Luftfart, Stein Nilsen, be included in the negotiations. Nilsen is also CEO of Widerøe. – He is an experienced, experienced and solution-oriented negotiator. If we get him into the system here, then we will find a solution, says NFO leader Jan Skogseth to TV 2. Director Torbjørn Lothe in NHO Luftfart reacts strongly to the proposal. – It’s completely unheard of. We have an extremely skilled negotiator and a strong team with expertise in labor law and negotiations. – It is a complete diversion from the core of the case, which is about completely exorbitant demands for which they do not get through, Lothe says to news. Will not answer about dispensation The fronts in the aircraft technician strike are hardening after NHO announced the lockout yesterday. The question is when the conflict goes so far that the government must intervene. The lockout includes, among other things, ambulance flight technicians in Babcock. NHO rejects that they speculate that the government intervenes with a forced wage board. – The very purpose of the lockout is to force the aircraft technicians back to the negotiating table. The lockout will not take effect until Sunday night. We have many days to resolve the conflict, and we must resolve the conflict. We can not let it continue, says Lothe. Babcock tells news that they are considering an application for a dispensation. They are now awaiting an assessment from the health authorities of whether a lockout of Babcock’s technicians organized in the NFO will pose a danger to life and health. They expect this answer no earlier than Thursday. – We will process it when it arrives. Then we will see what conclusion we come to then, Lothe answers if NHO will grant dispensation. – If exemptions are granted, is there no longer an argument for the government to intervene? – Now I do not want to go into that discussion. We have not received any application yet. We do not know the arguments and considerations to be emphasized, says Lothe. He says there has been contact between the parties today, but will not say anything about the progress. SV expects the wage board to be far behind The parties in the aircraft technician strike are several nautical miles apart, especially when it comes to wages. SV deputy leader Kirsti Bergstø warns against the use of a compulsory wage board. – I hope this situation can be resolved at the negotiating table. That would be the best thing for absolutely everyone, says SV deputy Kirsti Bergstø to news. SV deputy leader Kirsti Bergstø thinks NHO goes to the compulsory wage board if they do not accept dispensation. Photo: Fotonorden Since the lockout includes the company that operates the ambulance planes, the probability of a forced wage board increases. – If NHO chooses to implement a lockout, without taking into account exemption applications that can ensure that the strike does not come at the expense of life and health, then it is difficult to read it as anything other than an attempt to push a forced wage board and thus also a forced solution to the conflict, says Bergstø The Norwegian Aircraft Technician Organization has announced that an exemption will be applied for technicians who work with ambulance aircraft and ambulance transport. It is the company Babcock that must apply for such a dispensation. Babcock confirms to NTB that it may be relevant. – On the basis that we run a service that is considered socially critical, we are considering an application for dispensation to NHO, writes general manager Marius Hansen in Babcock Norden in a text message. In this connection, we will ask the health authorities for an assessment of whether a lockout of Babcock’s technicians organized in the NFO will constitute a danger to life and health, he writes. Believes strike is necessary Bergstø does not want to take a position on the requirements or basis for the strike in question, but says that it is a democratic right to strike. – There is no doubt that there have been strikes that have led to workers deceiving both wages and working conditions in society, and that it has been necessary to even out skewed power relations. She points out that the use of a compulsory wage board has received criticism internationally. – What expectations do you have for the government if the matter ends up on their table? – It all depends on what the situation looks like then. But I would expect that a government that is to be on the side of the workers does not take lightly the use of a forced wage board, she answers. Rødt: – It should, to put it mildly, worry the government Rødt leader Bjørnar Moxnes believes that a forced wage board should be avoided. Photo: Cicilie S. Andersen / Cicilie S. Andersen Red leader Bjørnar Moxnes refers to NHO top Ole Erik Almlid’s statements to VG yesterday. There he rejects that NHO with a lockout tries to force a wage board. – We certainly do not. This is a legal tool we choose to use now because they have gone on strike. We respond with a lockout and hope they return to the negotiating table, says Almlid to the newspaper. Moxnes believes Almlid now has a chance to prove that he is telling the truth. – If NHO really means what they say to VG that they do not speculate in the compulsory wage board, they can show it by granting NFO’s application for dispensation for the aircraft technicians who operate the ambulance planes in Norway, he writes to news. In the autumn, the Storting will consider a representative proposal from Rødt with a view to tightening the use of a compulsory wage board. – If it is the case that the employer side can only go to full lockout and it will affect socially critical occupations, it means that the employer side in reality has a veto right in the event of a strike. Then the government has no choice but to stop the strike with a forced wage board – this means that the right to strike in Norway is not real in these conflicts. That should, to put it mildly, worry the government, Moxnes writes.
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NHO believes that demands for a new chief negotiator are unheard of – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
