The trade union Fagforbundet called its members out on strike in the companies that are part of the NHO employers’ organisation. The aim is to ensure that workers in NHO companies are entitled to pensions on the same basis as municipal workers and those in the PBL agreement. This means a pension guaranteed for life and on a gender-equal basis and with some protection against the stock market fluctuations. Strikes began in a first group of workplaces on 16 February and further action was taken from 27 February.
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