– There are colleagues sitting subsequent to one another or in the identical workplace, with the identical training, the identical seniority and expertise and the identical duties. However with completely different pay. We merely can not have it that approach, stated LO chief Peggy Hessen Følsvik when she addressed the LO consultant board assembly in Oslo on Tuesday.
When Unio switched to the Lecturers’ settlement in 2022, the 2 fashioned the most important grouping within the state. Consequently, there have been even fewer individuals who took half within the distribution coverage and ensured honest pay for everybody, Følsvik maintained.
By full management over the wage invoice, and solely native negotiations, the 2 organizations have “secured a major pot which they’ll use for skewed distribution – in favor of these with the best wages”, hammered the LO chief from the rostrum.
– Some folks suppose we take it too exhausting once we name such an method non-solidarity. However I actually don’t have any different phrase for closing the door till 1st grade, she stated.
Amongst staff within the state, the typical wage for members of Akademikerne and Unio is NOK 30,000-40,000 increased than the wage of LO and YS members in the identical job and training class. The distinction is constant, no matter stage of training, figures NTB has obtained from LO present.
– They do not need to share
On this 12 months’s essential settlement, LO and YS demanded one joint essential tariff settlement for all 4 associations within the state and acquired some technique to acceptance for it from the state’s facet. They accepted a collective settlement through which 75 per cent of the wages should nonetheless be distributed regionally. As is well-known, Unio and the Lecturers selected to interrupt the mediation and go on strike.
– The teachers and Unio’s demand is that they need to not should share wages with our members. And it is not solidary. It isn’t one thing we will settle for, stated Følsvik.
The federal government and the state as employer have additionally been clear that in addition they need to return to an association with one collective settlement and have maintained this place earlier than and following the strike broke out just below two weeks in the past.
Since then, the Lecturers’ strike has been halted with a pressured wage board, whereas Unio maintains its strike.
– Crucial factor for us has been one settlement that ensures equal pay for equal work, no matter the place you might be organised. The settlement Akademikerne and Unio entered into two years in the past has expired, following which the content material should be renegotiated, Minister of Digitalization and Administration Karianne Tung (Ap) informed NTB on Friday.
Reprimanded proper
The Conservative Get together believes the federal government is dancing to LO’s lead and has on a number of events criticized the provide on this 12 months’s essential settlement. The assault from the best has certainly not gone unnoticed within the LO stronghold at Youngstorget.
The Conservative Get together’s representatives have misunderstood on a really basic stage, Følsvik believes.
– I do not know if they’re intentionally bluffing, or if they’re so poorly knowledgeable. As a result of our demand shouldn’t be that we must always determine. Our demand is that everybody ought to sit in the identical room and have the identical affect over wage coverage within the state, she stated, recalling that the Conservative Get together is generally reluctant to intervene in collective bargaining.
– Gross claims
The teachers’ head of negotiations, Anette Bjørlin Basma, calls the claims from the LO chief crass and undocumented.
– It should be at Følsvik’s personal expense. The settlement mannequin within the state contributes to the state, like the remainder of working life, having the instruments to have the ability to be aggressive within the battle to retain and recruit labor with increased training, she tells NTB.
She factors out that, like LO, Akademikerne safeguards its members’ pursuits in the very best approach.
– Anything might be sensational. A deterioration of this freedom of negotiation might be undemocratic, says the chief negotiator.
Chief Guro Lind in Unio stat says that she doesn’t acknowledge herself within the numbers.
– This can be a sport with numbers. LO pretends that these figures present that there’s discrimination within the state which impacts LO, however there isn’t any cowl for that, she says in a remark to NTB.
– Følsvik says she desires honest wage growth for everybody, however the issue is that it by no means consists of authorities staff with increased training. That’s the reason our collaboration with LO within the state is stranded. We imagine that training should repay, additionally within the state. We won’t be able to try this along with LO, which has completely different priorities, she provides.
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2024-06-05 00:26:47
