It seems that it can go towards a full lockout, according to a press release from NHO. – When the aircraft technicians have such unrealistic demands, we believe it is right that all members of NFO are part of the conflict, says CEO Ole Erik Almlid in NHO. Kristine Nergaard is a researcher at Fafo. About full lockout, she says: – It is rarely used, and mostly to force a wage board. It is an effective tool as such. Although the employer side will protest. Kristine Nergaard is a researcher at Fafo. Photo: FAFO 20 aircraft technicians in Babcock will also be taken out in a lockout from Sunday, writes TV 2. – A lockout that threatens patient travel, then you live dangerously close to a wage board, says Nergaard. Although this is legal and a right employer has, in the same way as employees have the right to strike, the researcher believes this will make them unpopular with the striking party. – Because it can be perceived as an attack on the right to strike. She believes this can get the parties back to the negotiating table quickly. History has shown that a wage board is happy to come before the lockout is a reality. – It was seen, for example, for banking services in its time. – I’m not sure about anything, but I would like to think that something that puts most domestic aviation on the ground reasonably quickly, that then there will be either a negotiated solution or a wage board. Then the question becomes what the aircraft technicians prefer. In the event of a strike, Widerøe’s aircraft will be Communications Director Silje Brandvoll in Widerøe. Photo: Ola Helness / news Communications Director Silje Brandvoll in Widerøe says that the company now focuses on the coming days with the aircraft technicians who have gone on strike. But she is aware that if there is a lockout from NHO Luftfart, it will affect all Widerøe’s flights. If there is a lockout, then Widerøe’s plane will stop. Babcock operates the ambulance planes in Norway. General manager Marius Hansen in Babcock Norden says in a statement to news that they regret that the conflict has reached this level. Hansen says it will only take hours before ambulance planes have to be taken out of service when the lockout takes effect. From experience, all ambulance planes will be on the ground in a few days without the supervision of an aircraft technician. Photo: Kåre Riibe Ramskjell / news Dramatic Hans Jørgen Elnæs, aviation analyst at Winair, says that this is «some of the most dramatic we have had in Norwegian aviation as far back as I can remember». Hans Jørgen Elnæs is an aviation analyst at Winair. Photo: Marit Sirum-Eikre / news – There are two companies that are particularly vulnerable here: Widerøe and Babcock fly the ambulance service for the state. And then we are fast on life and health and then the road is probably short for the government to take action in the forced wage board. – If you were to get a full lockout, what would be the consequences for Norwegian aviation? – It very much depends on whether you can operate aircraft at all. Have you signed out planes that can be used on Sunday? And if something happens and you do not have technicians, the planes will stop. This is a very unfavorable situation that neither the airlines nor the passengers can live with. – It seems to me that this is the way towards the government having to step in if the parties fail to agree on Sunday night. Want a solution From Sunday, a total of 421 aircraft technicians will be out on strike and lockout, among them 20 aircraft technicians who operate the ambulance aircraft in Norway, writes NTB. – This is a rare tool we do not often use, but it is a legal tool that we use to bring out the seriousness of the situation, said NHO chief Ole Erik Almlid when he met the press in Oslo on Tuesday night. A lockout prevents aircraft technicians who have not all gone on strike from going to work. Almlid rejects that they speculate that there will now be a forced wage board because there is danger to life and health. – We do this because we are facing an organization that has come up with demands that are completely unreasonable. They have demanded a 17 percent wage increase, while others have accepted a wage increase of 3.7 percent. We do this to tell the Norwegian Aircraft Technician Organization that now it is serious, now we want them back to the negotiating table in real negotiations, Almlid said. The NHO chief emphasizes that they want a solution. – We see that there are many passengers who are now affected by cancellations and cancellations. We do not experience that there has been any real willingness to negotiate, they have been completely firm and have been difficult to reach since May. Now something has to happen. Petter Wettre, who is the tariff leader in NFO, met on Tuesday night in news Dagsrevyen. He said they had so far not been considered how to respond to the message of lockout. – It came to us a little quickly that this should come so early after the break, but we are open to negotiations, says Wettre. He emphasizes that they still have contact with NHO Luftfart, and he promises that they will contact again tonight. – I can promise that here and now, Wettre told news. The leader of NFO, Jan Skogseth, tells TV 2 that he thinks it is special that the lockout warning is coming already now. – When we ended the dialogue last Sunday, they did not have time to meet on Monday. Then it is special to come up with a lockout today. It is grotesque to gamble with people’s lives in this way, he says to the channel. Updated 19.59: The Ministry of Health requests to be informed of the consequences of a possible lockout. – We have asked to be informed by the Air Ambulance Service HF about the consequences of a possible lockout, says State Secretary Karl Kristian Bekeng (Labor) in a statement to NTB. The Ministry will then forward the information to the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision, which in turn will assess whether these consequences will pose a danger to life and health.
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Researcher on NHO’s notice of lockout: Effective tool for the wage board – news Nordland
