On the night before Sunday, the conflict between NHO Luftfart and the Norwegian Aircraft Technician Organization (NFO) escalated with a lockout, and 450 flight technicians are not allowed to go to work. – This is a very unpopular strike, says professor of economics at the Norwegian School of Economics Frode Steen. This is because it creates uncertainty about health and whether people get to the hospital, Steen says. It could be hours before the ambulance plane was seen on the ground. At the same time, another consequence may be that patients do not receive cancer medicine. – I think it is not long until the government has enough argument to say that there will be a wage board, he says. It is the Norwegian Board of Health and the Ministry of Labor and Social Inclusion that assesses and approves a compulsory wage board if there is a danger to life and health. The ministry informed news yesterday that the minister is following the conflict. Frode Steen, professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, says that there will soon be a wage board in the aircraft technician strike. Photo: Alf-Jørgen Tyssing – Everything indicates that they are completely locked here. The lockout is clear because the employer thinks it is too high a requirement, says the professor. 125 cancellations on Monday Even before air traffic started on Monday, 149 cancellations had been reported, an overview to VG shows. Widerøe is hard hit by the flight engineer conflict and cancels over 100 departures on Monday. Press manager Catharina Solli tells news that they are trying to carry out as many departures as possible, and that it is the flights on the short-haul network that have happened. Screenshot from the homepage of Avinor on Monday morning shows that most Widerøe departures from Oslo Airport have been canceled. Photo: Screenshot – The longer routes continue as far as possible. However, we have had to cancel some of the regional routes as well. That is because we have had technical challenges with them, says Solli. Sorry settings SAS has, for example, canceled 17 flights on Monday, ten international and seven domestic, but this has nothing to do with the lockout. SAS’s press contact Lars Wigelstorp Andersen wins for news. – It is unfortunate that we have to cancel flights. We have had a little too many cancellations because we have a slightly higher sickness absence than normal, he says. SAS will, for example, cancel 17 flights on Monday, and press contact Lars Wigelstorp Andersen says it is due to high sickness absence. Photo: Ismail Burak Akkan / news Andersen nevertheless emphasizes that the company is vulnerable to the flight engineer conflict. – If something goes wrong on the plane, we do not have technicians who can look at it, and then we have to put the plane on the ground. Therefore, there may be more settings in the coming days, he concludes. Norwegian has canceled two domestic departures.
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Professor about the strike: – Very unpopular – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
