{"id":126192,"date":"2025-04-29T20:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/i-should-have-signed-up-incompetent-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T20:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:30:16","slug":"i-should-have-signed-up-incompetent-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/i-should-have-signed-up-incompetent-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8211; I should have signed up incompetent &#8211; news Norway &#8211; overview of news from different parts of the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Joint Federation leader J\u00f8rn Eggum initiated a relationship with Merethe Solberg while she was elected chef at IKEA. She stood out with her story at TV 2 on Monday night. -I am sorry that this case has become as it has become, Eggum writes in an email to news on Tuesday night. Solberg was appointed head of the Fellesforbundet Division 10 when the board of the Fellesforbundet set the department under the administration. This means that they intervene, set aside the board of the department and take over the operation. Standing forward: Merethe Solberg stands out with her story that she had a sexual relationship with Fellesforbundet leader J\u00f8rn Eggum. Photo: Tom Balgaard \/ news &#8211; TV 2 speculates that there is a connection between my relationship with Merethe Solberg and the Fellesforbundet&#8217;s decision to put Division 10 under administration. It&#8217;s wrong, writes Eggum. TV 2&#8217;s news editor Karianne Solbrekke tells Dagbladet that they are responsible for journalism the channel has published. &#8211; We have documented a relationship with a union representative and their relationship further, which J\u00f8rn Eggum himself has also admitted. Then we documented how he acts in the process of a proposal for a final agreement, where he was authorized by his own board without informing about the relationship, writes Solbrekke in a text message to Dagbladet Fellesforbundet&#8217;s communications manager Bettina Thorvik said earlier Tuesday that no one in the board of the board of the Fellesforbundet knew the relationship between Eggum and Solberg. Photo: Jonas Been Henriksen \/ NTB Fellesforbundet Communications Manager Bettina Thorvik said earlier Tuesday that the decision stands. &#8211; That said, I should have informed the federal board of my old relationship with her when I chaired the meeting where the department was decided to be set under administration. And I should have reported incompetent in the follow -up of the decision. I didn&#8217;t, and I apologize, Eggum writes to news. &#8211; Don&#8217;t dare say no in a pre -recorded interview, Solberg says his story in the debate at news on Tuesday night. She became acquainted with Eggum after they happened to vacation in the same place in Greece in the summer of 2017. After holidays, Eggum visited her workplace at Ikea Slependen. Merethe Solberg was interviewed by debate program director Fredrik Solvang earlier Tuesday night. Photo: Tom Balgaard \/ news A few weeks later they met at a bar in Oslo. Solberg ended up going home to the commuter apartment of Eggum, where they had sex for the first time. &#8211; With your consent, do I expect? &#8211; It was my consent, because I didn&#8217;t dare to say no, but yes. &#8211; I&#8217;m afraid of the consequences of saying no. Whether he is to become angry or annoyed. It is difficult when he is a leader. He is a high up in the system. He is the federal leader. It is difficult to say no in such a setting, says Solberg. &#8211; But then you two continue to have sex a number of times in Eggum&#8217;s commuter apartment until 2022. It was voluntary every single time? &#8211; It has been voluntary every time, but it has been difficult to say no. Because, as I said, I&#8217;m afraid of the consequences and what it means to me, then. This is J\u00f8rn Eggum heads Fellesforbundet, the largest LO association in the private sector, and has done so since 2015. Was federal secretary in the Fellesforbundet in 2010 before becoming a leader. Is the only candidate when LO next week will choose a new leader. Is a central board member of the Labor Party. Has worked in full -time trade union movement since 2004, when he was elected as deputy head of the Fellesforbundet in Bergen. Represented the Labor Party in Bergen City Council in the period 2007-2011. Rejecting power imbalance &#8211; the leadership and the federal government have expressed confidence in me. I am glad, Eggum writes to news. Eggum calls their relationship a &#8220;friendship&#8221; and rejects that it has been a power imbalance. He tells TV 2 that he thinks it does not violate LO&#8217;s guidelines. &#8211; No, I do not know if it is a violation of LO&#8217;s guidelines. These have been two adults who became known as friends and have met each other occasionally as both union representatives and friends. I do not feel that there is a break in anywhere, or a type of abuse of power as it is presented here, Eggum told TV 2 on Monday. Merethe Solberg finds it difficult to define what kind of relationship she has had for Fellesforbundet leader J\u00f8rn Eggum. Photo: Tom Balgaard \/ news Solberg himself thinks the relationship is difficult to define. &#8211; It has been a strange relationship that I find difficult to define. It is not until afterwards that I have realized what this has really been, says Solberg to news. Taken over the operation Solberg was, as a union representative in the Division of the Fellesforbundet 10. The department organizes hotels, restaurant, catering, canteens and nightlife industry in Oslo and Akershus. In January, the central board of the Fellesforbundet decided to set section 10 under administration. Solberg was thus appointed head of Division 10. &#8211; I was shocked and completely desperate. It was painful. I didn&#8217;t quite understand what had happened, says Solberg. Merethe Solberg says it was shocking that the board of the Fellesforbundet set the department she chaired under administration. Photo: Tom Balgaard \/ news She says she was offered an agreement that she thinks contains confidential clauses. Eggum denies that Solberg was offered some hush agreement. -I want to repeat what I said yesterday: Neither Fellesforbundet nor Division 10 has offers Merethe Solberg any hush agreement, as TV 2 claims, Eggum writes to news. On Tuesday, a former board member of Division 10 told Nettavisen that he has delivered notice at Solberg. Solberg wasn&#8217;t aware until she read it in Nettavisen, she tells news. &#8211; I can&#8217;t relate to that. I have never been in the case that there have been some notifications. Had there been an alert on me, they should have been treated, says Solberg. Eggum says it will be impossible for them to counter the claims. &#8211; When Merethe Solberg does not want to exempt us from the duty of confidentiality related to notification cases, it is impossible for us to respond to the allegations of the notification cases that concern her, he writes. Published 29.04.2025, at. 22.23<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/norge\/jorn-eggum-til-nrk_-_-jeg-skulle-ha-meldt-meg-inhabil-1.17399411\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ttn-69 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Federation leader J\u00f8rn Eggum initiated a relationship with Merethe Solberg while she was elected chef at IKEA. She stood out with her story at TV 2 on Monday night. -I am sorry that this case has become as it has become, Eggum writes in an email to news on Tuesday night. 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