Fears the Norwegian Meals Security Authority strike will result in a scarcity of rooster in outlets

– It should in a short time run out of recent rooster within the store, says chairman of the Norwegian Poultry Affiliation Trude Hegle to VG.

263 workers of the Norwegian Meals Security Authority have been known as out on strike by the Lecturers. Because of this a number of slaughterhouses have to stay closed across the nation.

Now a obligatory wage board is being requested from one among Norway’s largest meals producers.

– The results for animal welfare and the farmer’s funds might be very severe, says emergency supervisor and director for protected meals and animal welfare at Nortura, Hanne Steen to NRK.

They’re in peril of getting to shut two slaughterhouses.

-Very severe

– This can be a potential tragedy for animal welfare, meals waste and other people. The strike has severe penalties for rooster manufacturing, and hits the farmer’s financial system terribly laborious, says Hilde Talseth, who’s CEO of Norsk Kylling in a press launch.

Based on the plan, Norsk Kylling was to gather 130,000 chickens for slaughter from seven farmers in Trøndelag on Monday and Tuesday. The strike by the staff of the Meals Security Authority signifies that these chickens can’t be taken in for slaughter.

– For animal welfare, that is very severe. I can’t perceive that these penalties don’t present grounds for dispensation. The results are additionally very severe from a sustainability perspective, and I believe it’s unethical that we’ve got to throw away 60 tonnes of meals a day. That corresponds to 300,000 dinners, says Talseth.

Financial catastrophe

Rune Vang is without doubt one of the farmers who might also be affected by the strike. He tells NRK that he was really imagined to ship 26,000 chickens for slaughter. The farmer refers to it as a monetary catastrophe, ought to he not be capable of ship the chickens for slaughter. He says that he has already spent 1,000,000 kroner on chickens and focus. They should be slaughtered earlier than they get too massive.

– Animals develop day-following-day. So possibly we are able to maintain out for a few additional days, however no extra, says the farmer from Inderøy to the channel.

Talseth in Norsk Kylling hopes there can be an answer earlier than the weekend is over.

– Now it is pressing. If the events come to an settlement in the course of the weekend, or the authorities intervene with a obligatory wage board, we’ve got the chance to keep away from a possible tragedy.

The Norwegian Meals Security Authority provides no ensures that they are going to be at work when the chickens are to be slaughtered.

– Strikes are a official software in working life. The educational’s strike motion by the Norwegian Meals Security Authority’s workers has main penalties for a lot of, and our job is to make it seen to our proprietor ministry, writes Lena de Faveri to NRK, she is head of the division for enterprise administration within the Norwegian Meals Security Authority.