Wednesday, October 26, 2016

No solution on the togstreiken – now suffer the Sørlandsbanen – Aftenposten

There was unfortunately no solution, ” says chairman Rolf Ringdal of the Norwegian Lokomotivmannsforbund (NLF) to the NTB just after the clock 4 on the night of Wednesday. Had the parties gone from each other after having been together since at 12 o’clock on Tuesday morning.

– We moved us and came to NSB in the face of what we perceived was important for them. The most important thing for us has been to ensure a national standard of competence. We offered us to take this out of the accord, but agree with NSB about a common requirements to the authorities, ” says Ringdal. Associated asked the NSB to commit themselves until a national standard was in place, but says that the other party would only commit itself in eight months.

It was impossible to end the strike for eight months.

Range responds

On the employer side says Range that there was no real movement with the counterparty.

” We react strongly that Lokomotivmannsforbundet now have enticed customers and passengers to believe that they have changed the requirements of their so that trains can again proceed normally. In reality, they stand firm on the requirement to tariffeste which skills togførere should have, ” says communications director Gunnar Larsen in the Range. He apologize strongly that the strike is now continuing.

Sørlandsbanen

It means that thousands of commuters on the south, and from the Wednesday also on the Sørlandsbanen, still need to stand in long queues and to find alternative means of transportation to get to work.

on Friday last week, it became known that the conflict escalate with six new lokførere on the Sørlandsbanen from Wednesday. The outlet is in Kristiansand city in order not to increase the pressure in southeastern norway further. Together will then 124 lokførere be on strike.

The recent past has been characterized by full buses and long traffic jams on the pleasant hills at the gates to Oslo from Follo and Østfold – since all of the commuter train on Østfoldbanen is set. To usual these trains about 20,000 passengers daily.

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