Norway -Solid wage increase for engineers -January 2, 2012

NITO, the Norwegian Society of Engineers and Technologists, has for 2011 secured a major wage increase for those of its approximately 66,000 members who figured in the list of members in both 2011 and 2010. Its members only negotiate locally. In 2011, the average wage increase was 5.1% in the private sector, while wages for NITO members rose by 6.1%. In comparison, the Norwegian inflation forecast for 2011 is 1.5%. This solid increase of real wages is partly a consequence of the country’s shortage of engineers.

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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 or the communications officer of the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2012.