Wage negotiation
NTL urged its members to not say the end result of the wage settlement, and so they acquired their approach. Now they’re dissatisfied that LO Stat chooses a voluntary wage board as a substitute of happening strike.
The primary consultant of the union in NTL-UiO, Natalia Zubillaga, refers to at this time’s message from LO Stat as “utterly incomprehensible”. Photograph: Amanda Jakobine Lind Nelvik
— It’s unimaginable that LO Stat goes to voluntary intervention when our members are so clear. Our members forged their votes utterly away from the results, and are able to strike for our rules, says Natalia Zubilaga, head of the native department of the Norwegian Civil Service Union (NTL) on the College of Oslo.
“We’re merely indignant that that is what they’ve give you, and we really feel that they’re going over member democracy,” she says.
That angle can also be mirrored additional north, on the NTL workplace at NTNU.
— How acceptable is it actually for NTL to be a part of LO Stat?
– On a day like this he questions that, fairly naturally, says Thomas Ferstad, deputy head of NTNU’s NTL.
He says that the function of LO Stat is one thing that shall be mentioned within the autumn, and was the topic of the nationwide assembly earlier than the weekend. The issue is that there aren’t any clear options for the affiliation.
– It’s not related to go away LO, however the query that I believe many individuals are asking themselves at this time, and they’re going to actually wish to do one thing about it, is the composition of the board and the negotiation committee in LO State. In our view, we have now too little energy in NTL to affect the end result of the negotiations, regardless of being the biggest union of all. Right here, LO Stat listens to a small minority of members, says Ferstad.
Obligatory wage board
Demand that the Storting set up a brand new unbiased board
Believes that the democracy of the members has been put aside
On Monday, it turned clear that the members of LO Stat are saying that the results of the wage negotiations isn’ta consequence that the LO Stat board spent the morning contemplating easy methods to take care of.
Ultimately, the selection fell on a voluntary wage board, which is a heavy burden on NTL.
With over two-thirds of the membership in LO Stat, they’re a giant participant, and so they additionally set the tone after they urged their members to vote in opposition to the association.
– When there is no such thing as a strike with such a majority, we imagine that the democracy of the members is put aside. After all, we can’t make a brand new predominant settlement in the identical scenario, says the top of the NTL commerce union, Kjersti Barsok, in a press launch.
When requested by Khrono if this implies she believes that NTL ought to break with LO Stat, Barsok replied that there are a lot of methods to vary the scenario, together with the composition of the committees in LO Stat change.
– We knew that there was a requirement for this yr’s association, and that we must lengthen to succeed in related agreements, however we didn’t wish to lengthen this far. We expect there must be a strike, she says.
Zubilaga at NTL UiO additionally is aware of that the present scenario isn’t sustainable anyway.
– I believe the frustration may be very huge within the group now, and we are going to in all probability need to sleep on this for some time. However it’s clear that we have to speak concerning the function of LO Stat right here, and the way this must be dealt with sooner or later. We can’t danger that the biggest union in LO Stat is not going to be heard in this sort of determination.
LO Stat doesn’t want to touch upon the statements from NTL.
The wage association
NTL asks all members to vote no. In the event that they do, there shall be a strike
I disagree about “all the things”
That is the second time on this yr’s wage negotiations that the most important variations between the NTL union and the primary LO Stat union have come to gentle.
Already when the end result of the intervention was accessible, there was disagreement. LO Stat agreed to a proposal with an area wage formation of 75%, and a central complement in share. NTL desires the entire pot to be distributed centrally, and it will likely be finished by means of a krone complement.
LO has a convention of sending the outcomes of wage settlements to the primary vote, and so long as greater than two-thirds vote, the result’s thought-about binding.
On this vote, 68.2 p.c of the members voted. 76.3 p.c of those voted in opposition to the settlement that was on the desk.
– When such a big share of the members vote for the present settlement, we thought-about it utterly clear that there could be a strike, says Barsok within the press launch.
Native vs. centrally
The provide from the state of 75 p.c native distribution was seen as a compromise that was too near the desires of Akademikerne and Unio, in an try and get the 2 to agree on a collective settlement within the state, as a substitute of the 2 that at present exist. .
As of at this time, the teachers and Unio have a separate collective settlement which states that the complete wage enhance should be decided domestically, a coverage that has sparked a lot dialogue within the Khrono columns after the 2 unions clashed strike to maintain their very own settlement with 100. p.c native wage formation.
On the one hand, amongst others, Katharina Sass, an abnormal member of the NTL, believed that The Union of Researchers and Teachers went on strike over even larger pay inequality.
In distinction, Hugues Verdure and Tord Mjøsund Talmo, each on the high of their respective native groups within the Forskerforbundet, argued native wage formation is central to aggressive situations for the general public sector as nicelytogether with wages, in comparison with the personal sector.
Change log: Monday 17 June at 2.33 pm: Up to date with info that LO Stat doesn’t want to touch upon the statements from NTL.
Monday 17 June at 15:55: Up to date with feedback from NTL chief Kjersti Barsok.