Unions angered by state intervention in private health and care dispute

Norway

The government has imposed compulsory arbitration in a dispute between unions representing health and care staff in the private and non-profit sector and the NHO employers’ organisation. The unions were taking strike action in support of their demand for higher pay rates that would bring pay in line with comparable collective agreements in health and care. The NHO was refusing to negotiate and then the national health board intervened claiming that the dispute was posing a danger to life and health. Each side will now present evidence to an independent wages board whose decision will then be implemented in a new collective agreement. Trade unions argue that this is a unjustifiable attack on the right to strike.

Fagforbundet (NO)
FO (NO)
Delta (NO)

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