Expert accept collective agreement for the employees – NRK

– Strikes and boycotts can have major consequences. The risk we were not willing to take, says HR and personnel manager Morten Hovland Expert.

– We chose safety for employees rather than prestige, he added.

The store chain has been in mediation with Retail and Office. If it had not been an agreement, it would become strike for nine stores from Friday.

– This is an important victory for the organized and serious workplace, says deputy Bjorn MIETINEN in Retail and Office.

criticized for “union busting”

Expert has received criticism from several unions after NRK in two weeks ago said that the chain would terminate the collective wage agreement for hundreds employees nor increase employee bonus share.

A paragraph in to terminate the collective agreement for Expert was that inconvenience allowance can be removed and replaced with bonuses.

MIETINEN expressed strong concern for the hundreds members he has in stores around the country.

– I think it tends toward union busting, if I can use such a strong word, said MIETINEN NRK.

It dismissed personnel manager Morten Hovland Expert.

– What we want to achieve is a more performance-oriented culture in our business. It will give us more satisfied customers, he said.

YS criticized Expert and made it clear that they “had expected more maturity from such a great actor,” and SV and Red urging people to boycott Expert.

– Strike would put jobs at risk

Business administration and has always stood firm on the requirement to continue the collective agreements in Expert stores where they had an agreement.

WOULD AVOID STRIKE: Personnel Morten Hovland Expert regret that they do not cut the collective wage agreement, but said the risk of a strike would be too costly.

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Now it has been local polls in 23 company-owned stores that have had a collective agreement. A majority in twelve of the stores wanted to continue with the collective agreement, but eleven stores wanted a new deal.

Now continue all the employees with the same collective agreement.

– We deeply regret our employees in these stores do not even get to choose between the old collective agreement or a new wage agreement. We believe the announced strike and boycott the plans of Retail and Office would put jobs at risk, says Hovland.

He said chain therefore saw no other option than to accept the collective agreements in all stores, though it is contrary to the wishes of a large number of employees.