A break in the negotiations between the union Junit and the confederation of Norwegian enterprise Aviation has recognised that the parties meet at Riksmekleren Saturday in the next week. If they do not reach agreement, employees may at Norwegian airports will be taken out in the strike already on Sunday.
the Strike includes employees in bakketjenestene, service, and operational functions, shipping, sales, and administration.
is Going to be labeled
Forhandlingsleder Bente Ørberg in Junit could earlier this week disclosing that the employees at Bergen and Trondheim airport will be taken out in the eventual strike.
Now, it is also decided that the employees at the Stavanger and Bodø are taken out if the strike is initiated from the 5. February.
– We take out all our members on the stations in Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger and Bodø. A total of nearly 200 employees, ” says Ørberg to E24.
– We can take out the number after each, she adds.
– How well will the passengers to notice the strike?
On the drives we take out the members one will notice it very well, for there is a majority of the employees organised in the us, ” says Ørberg.
Passengers will notice the strike on both check-in, ticket office, gate and administration. Persists the strike, it is possible that the employees at airports in the Eastern regions will be taken out eventually, and more groups than bakkemannskapet at the other airports.
– air traffic will be paralyzed, without a doubt, emphasizes Ørberg.
air travel in Norway could be affected by the strike
– Is not a full stop
public affairs Manager at SAS, Knut Morten Johansen, points out that it announced streikeuttaket of 200 people will not be particularly dramatic before any strike being stepped up.
– It is definitely not the full stop of this, but it could lead to interference in the traffic, he says to E24.
Johansen emphasizes that it is still too early to say specifically how a strike will affect if the parties do not reach an agreement the next weekend.
– We is now pending meeting with Riksmeglingsmannen and hope, of course, that the parties come to an agreement, ” says Johansen.
He also points out that SAS is not a party in the case, as they bakkeansatte now are employed in a company owned by Widerøe.
– But the functionality to Aircraft handling, the among other things, the SAS aircraft, ” says Johansen.
the SAS sold in the last year bakketjenestene its in Norway to Widerøe, with the exception of those at Oslo Airport. Thus, it is Widerøe who have responsibility for the staff at the airports who can now be affected by the strike. Widerøes bakkeansatte operate the SAS-planes at the airports in Norway outside the Oslo Airport.
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the Great discontent
the Break comes of the negotiations for a new collective agreement, Luftfartsavtalen, where salary is one of the hovedmomentene the parties disagree about.
Junit organizes around 500 members in the check-in desks and embarkation on Norwegian airports. Most members are working for Widerøe, Ground Action, but the union also has several members from SAS Ground Action at Gardermoen and in the Aviator, which has bakkehåndtering for Norwegian.
– once again, it becomes so incredibly small that will inure to those on the ground, especially those employees who went from the SAS-owned company SAS Ground Action over to the Aircraft fleet Ground Action. When you have come across in the new company are not agreements the same, ” says Ørberg.
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Many are covered by the agreement, but dissatisfaction is especially great in Widerøe Ground Action, the subsidiary of Widerøe.
– This is a frustration among people because the companies share in legal entities, such that one no longer is employed by the parent company, ” says Ørberg. She explains that several companies sell devices and freezes the pay for to be able to meet the competition.
–Several pushes the staff in front of him, straight and clear, or are not, the companies agreements with the major airline.
Junit-members of the Aircraft fleet Ground Action believes that the worse conditions for wages, and the changing of the vaktplaner that leads to more work on the red – and holidays have been the effects of the transition.
Manager Catharina Solli in Widerøe will not go into the details of the negotiations.
– We enter into a period of negotiations and hope for an eventual solution before the strike is a fact.
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