Norway - Nurses' union anger at arbitration - February 15, 2010

The NSF nurses' union is angry that the government has intervened in the union's dispute with private sector health employers. The union had been trying to ensure that nurses employed by companies in the NHO employers' federation in line with nurses in the public sector. The employers threatened to close a hospital in reaction to the union's industrial action and the government stepped in to force the dispute to arbitration. The union has called on the government to abide by Convention 94 of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) that calls for contracts issued by public authorities to maintain pay in conditions in line with practice in the sector. NSF has been trying to negotiate a collective agreement with NHO for three years and resorted to strike action after arbitration failed.

English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/354; http://www.epsu.org/cob/352

Norwegian: https://www.sykepleierforbundet.no/portal/page/portal/NSF/VisArtikkel ...

 

This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI atwww.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2009.

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