Jøran is one of several who did not receive a food bag at the Salvation Army’s day center for drug addicts at Hveita in Trondheim. The employees are on strike. – I was there and experienced a closed door. It is tragic at this Christmas time. Many people get frustrated, he says. The Salvation Army usually distributes between 100 and 150 food bags on Fridays, but the distribution has now stopped for the time being. The Salvation Army wants to apply for a dispensation from the strike, so that they can continue with this offer to a vulnerable group of people. NHO says no. Jøran says several people are frustrated because the premises of the Salvation Army are closed due to a strike. Photo: Morten Andersen Painful to stop food distribution Employees of the Association for the Blind, the Salvation Army and companies operating within private care services have been on strike since 2 November. They are striking for higher wages, but on Friday several people wished they were back at work in the premises at Hveita in Trondheim. – It hurts to think about the group we are now unable to help, says auxiliary nurse Kirsti Benberg in the Salvation Army. They are striking for better wages. Today they earn 50,000 less than municipal employees a year, she says. The Salvation Army wanted to get a dispensation from the strike, so that they can continue with food distribution on Fridays. The employers’ organization NHO refused to apply for it. The reason is that there is no danger to life and health. The trade union believes that an exemption from the strike could have been granted, in order to distribute food, says Mats Monsen. Photo: Per Olav Alvestad The trade union reacts The trade union is critical that NHO has refused to send an application for dispensation from the strike. – We are actually quite surprised that they have chosen not to submit. We have thought that this is a group that we should actually consider giving a dispensation to, says Mats Monsen, leader of the Trondheim Trade Union. Director for working life and collective bargaining in NHO, Nina Melsom, says that they are in mediation with the other parties, and that it is therefore unnatural to comment on an ongoing strike. – We apologize for the inconvenience the strike causes for users and third parties, but it is the employee side that decides which companies and employees are taken out on strike, she writes in an e-mail to news. NHO apologizes for the inconvenience the strike may have for third parties, but will not comment on an ongoing strike, says director Nina Melsom. Photo: Moment Studio Met closed door Jøran would have liked to see that the door was not closed to the Salvation Army premises at Hveita in Trondheim. In addition to food bags being distributed on Fridays, anyone who wants it can get breakfast, coffee, coffee bread, and you can come in just to relax and warm up, before you get a bag of food. Many also come to apply for gift vouchers before Christmas. The offer is for people with substance abuse problems. Nevertheless, Jøran understands the strike. – They are workers. They must, they must. You have to show some solidarity with them too. The strike continues, and the door is thus closed on the premises of the Salvation Army at Hveita in Trondheim. Photo: Per Olav Alvestad Published 22.11.2024, at 18.54
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