{"id":7038,"date":"2022-07-19T06:16:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T06:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-sas-strike-is-over-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T06:16:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T06:16:27","slug":"the-sas-strike-is-over-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-sas-strike-is-over-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"The SAS strike is over – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The pilots have also agreed to a pay cut. The head of SAS in Norway, Kjetil H\u00e5bj\u00f8rg, tells news that the management contributes with a salary freeze from 2019 to 2025. – Everyone who works with SAS must contribute for this to succeed. This applies to creditors and employees, including the management, says H\u00e5bj\u00f8rg, to news on Tuesday morning. H\u00e5bj\u00f8rg says that it will take a day or two before they are one hundred percent back in operation. – But we should be able to help many of our passengers already today, he says. The company will primarily prioritize flying home stranded passengers. The parties agree, and the SAS strike will be called off. Photo: JOHAN NILSSON \/ AFP It has been important for the company to resolve the conflict. Now H\u00e5bj\u00f8rg is looking ahead. – It has been a long, demanding period for everyone who has been involved in this. We are very pleased that we can now state that we have reached an agreement with our pilot associations. Despite the fact that the strike is over, so far today 112 flights to and from Norway have been canceled as a result of the SAS strike. It shows figures from Avinor. On Wednesday, 36 departures have already been canceled. – The strike is over – Then we have reached an agreement. The strike is over. We will return to work tomorrow, said leader of the Swedish pilots Martin Lindgren to a united press corps on Tuesday night. Around At 03.20, the parties finally came out, and were able to confirm that the strike was over after 15 days. It was several hours after news and a number of other media had experienced that an agreement had been reached. Martin Lindgren, leader of the Swedish pilot association SPG. Photo: Even Bj\u00f8rings\u00f8y Johnsen \/ news Lindgren says that the agreement is, among other things, that all pilots who have been laid off during the pandemic are entitled to get their jobs back. There was some confusion after SAS sent out a press release on Monday night in which they wrote that even though the mediation process has gone in the right direction, an agreement has not yet been signed. So it has become now. Just over five years’ agreement and 5 per cent reduction in salary The collective agreement will last until 30 September 2027. This means that the pilots cannot renegotiate the agreement or strike during this period, in just over five years. news has previously been able to report that the dispute has been specifically about the term of the collective agreement, and learned on Monday night that the agreement was for five years. In Norway, it is common for a collective agreement to have a duration of two years. – The pilots will reduce wages by 5 percent, but will have a wage development in line with inflation and wage development in Scandinavia in the coming years, Lindgren says. He also says that all pilots in SAS will be covered by the same collective agreement. Concerned about deteriorating conditions Leader of the Norwegian SAS pilots’ association Roger Klokset is far from satisfied with the agreement they have signed. – I will briefly summarize this agreement with the fact that the SAS pilots have secured the Scandinavian model, but at a very high price. Roger Klokset, leader of the Norwegian SAS pilots’ association Photo: Even Bj\u00f8rings\u00f8y Johnsen \/ news – You say at a very high price, what is in it? – We have given large savings. We have worsened the conditions of our members on most points. Both service, working hours and salary. But in return, we have ensured that the SAS management follows our collective agreements, and that they apply to all SAS companies. Covers all three companies Jan Levi Skogvang, head of the SAS pilots in Parat, tells news that they experienced it as a betrayal that the company started other companies and prevented dismissed pilots from returning. The positive thing is that they have landed a joint agreement with rights and obligations that cover all three companies, he says. Jan Levi Skogvang, head of the SAS pilots in Parat, sees positive aspects of the agreement. Photo: Even Bj\u00f8rings\u00f8y Johnsen \/ news – The most important thing is that we have a unified pilot group, the dismissed get their jobs back and we get on a common seniority list. This has always been the case at SAS, and that is the way we want it to be in the future, says Skogvang. Soon on the wings again – I am very happy that we can finally leave here with a signed agreement, says SAS’s chief negotiator Marianne Hern\u00e6s. Marianne Hern\u00e6s, chief negotiator for SAS. Photo: Even Bj\u00f8rings\u00f8y Johnsen \/ news – I am very happy on behalf of the passengers. Hern\u00e6s says it will take some time before you get the flight offer properly back in place. On Monday, news was informed that it will take a couple of days for SAS to be fully operational again. – Normally, it takes two to five days to get full production again after a strike, Aleksander Wasland, leader of the Norwegian Aviation Association, told news. The agreement will be voted on The strike has so far cost SAS 100-130 million Swedish kroner per day. Around 30,000 passengers have been affected by the strike daily. The agreement between SAS and the pilot associations will now be voted on by the members, Lindgren says. – It’s going to a referendum. We will have a vote on the agreement among our members. Then everything is ready, says Lindgren. However, he can not promise that the members will vote for the agreement. Apologies to customers – The first thing we want to do is apologize to customers, said SAS CEO Anko van der Werff. SAS’s CEO Anko van der Werff met with the press on Tuesday night. Photo: Even Bj\u00f8rings\u00f8y Johnsen \/ news When asked how passengers should trust SAS after the long strike, the CEO answered the following: – It is up to us at SAS to show that this is not who we are. We want to make sure that we protect our customers, that we unite as a company around our customers. Werff also expressed joy that the pilots are contributing to the process of restructuring the company. – The company is still not in a stable condition, but the fact that the pilots are now on board is very good news. At the same time, he emphasizes that the agreement means that 450 pilots will now get their jobs back. The SAS management will now talk to investors about the agreement, van der Werff says. – We will contact them and explain why this is a good deal for everyone, and why we believe that there is thus a greater chance that they will want to invest in us. Getting to the top of an economic crisis The strike became a fact when the parties broke off negotiations on 4 July and 900 pilots in Norway, Sweden and Denmark went on strike. The core of the conflict was the creation of two staffing companies. When the pandemic came, around 560 pilots in Norway lost their jobs. Nevertheless, they were given a five-year re-employment right. The subsidiaries SAS Link and SAS Connect were started up after the agreement on the right of re-employment was entered into. These will take over aircraft and be filled with new pilots. The SAS pilots have warned that the company is thereby trying to circumvent its obligations to bring the dismissed pilots back. SAS, for its part, has rejected this and believes that the company relates to all agreements entered into. The strike came on top of an economic crisis in SAS where the company has said that they must cut annual costs by 7.5 billion Swedish kroner and at the same time raise 9.5 billion Swedish kroner in new capital. LO and YS with new support for the pilots – We are happy that the strike is over and would like to praise the SAS pilots, the Norwegian Pilots’ Association and Parat for having gone to great lengths to have reached an agreement that will end the strike, says LO- leader Peggy Hessen F\u00f8lsvik and 1st deputy leader of YS Hans-Erik Skj\u00e6ggerud in a joint statement in a press release on Tuesday night. – The SAS pilots did not want this strike, and that it has taken place at all, the SAS management must take full responsibility for, the two union leaders say.
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