The trade unions Trade and Office (HK), Parat and Negotia have agreed with the main organization Virke on this year’s wage settlement.
VG reports this on Tuesday morning. Just before 12 o’clock on Tuesday, the parties could confirm that they had reached an agreement.
The result of the mediation is within the framework for the frontline subject, with an overall wage increase of 5.2 per cent.
– Now we are happy to have reached an agreement. It has been an intense and demanding day, and we are satisfied to have reached an agreement that both parties could sign. Now we are avoiding a general strike in Norwegian shops and businesses. Our members sell important goods and services that mean a lot to people’s everyday lives, says Virke CEO Bernt G. Apeland.
Thus, a strike for over 4,000 employees in shops, offices and warehouses has been avoided.
The negotiations lasted over nine hours beyond the original time frame. The deadline to end the negotiations was midnight on Tuesday.
If the mediation did not succeed, Parat stated that companies such as Byggmakker, XL-Bygg, Løvenskiold/Maxbo, Montér, Gustav Pedersen and Optimera would be affected by strikes.
HK Norge announced that they would collect their members from Travel Retail Norway at the airports in Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim. Thus, duty-free sales could close at these airports.
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