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Thousands more head out on strike
June 2, 2021
More than 20,000 public sector employees, many of them teachers and nurses, are now on strike in Norway after municipal employers refused to take the initiative for renewed negotiations. The teachers and nurses especially can claim public support even after, or perhaps because of, a difficult Corona year.
Striking Unio members outside the new city library in downtown Oslo. PHOTO: Unio
Many schools and day care centers all over the country were closed again on Wednesday, and not because of Corona restrictions this time. Teachers are tired of having much lower income growth, as much as 14 percent less by some calculations, than other municipal employees. So are nurses, who continue to claim that their pay is so low that it’s difficult to recruit young people to the profession.