Over 300 members in EL and IT Forbundet on strike from Thursday

Abelia from NHO and the worker group El og It-forbundet from LO have negotiated the ICT settlement. The deadline to agree was midnight on Thursday night time.

Two hours into additional time, EL and IT Forbundet reported to the Riksmekleren that it was not potential to achieve an settlement. This implies there can be a strike from Thursday morning.

– Unreasonably excessive necessities

– We’re placing for an honest wage for everybody within the collective settlement, elevating the minimal wage and co-determination of emergency guards, says union secretary and head of EL and IT’s negotiating committee Geir Aasen.

Birgit Abrahamsen, director of employment regulation at Abelia, tells NTB that there have been demanding negotiations, however that they hoped to achieve an settlement.

– Sadly, the calls for from the Electrical energy and IT Affiliation have been unreasonably excessive, and we remorse that this has ended with them occurring strike, says Birgit Abrahamsen, director of employment regulation at Abelia.

The strike might have an effect on EC viewers

EL and the IT union introduced that the next can be taken out on strike: Geomatikk AS (60 folks), GlobalConnect (29), Komplett (56), Onitio Norge (67), Onitio Options Norge (18), Telia (57) and TietoEVRY Norway (32).

The strikers work, amongst different issues, in customer support, growth, set up, operation and upkeep of electronics and IT gear.

– We are able to verify that a few of our colleagues, primarily in customer support, have gone on strike. We hope this is not going to have an effect on our prospects unnecessarily, however in durations with plenty of site visitors, our prospects can anticipate considerably longer ready occasions than regular, says data supervisor Daniel Barhom at Telia to NTB.

Earlier than the mediation began, Aasen mentioned {that a} strike will be felt in a number of methods.

– In case your Telia community have been to exit proper earlier than the spherical of 16 within the soccer European Championship, it’s conceivable that error correction would take longer, and that you wouldn’t attain customer support till after the referee has blown the match off, mentioned Aasen.