Norway industry workers, employers agree 5.2% wage increase (updated)
07/04/2024 21:34
(Adds a second union agreeing to wage deal, paragraph 3)
OSLO, April 7 (Reuters) - Norwegian industrial workers
have reached a wage deal with employers, avoiding strike action,
a major labour union said on Sunday.
The deal will lift wages by 5.2% on average in 2024 and also
involved increased educational support, said the Norwegian
Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), the biggest of the two
labour groups taking part in negotiations.
The smaller Parat union, from which some 1,000 workers
planned to go on strike, also said later on Sunday it had made a
deal for a wage rise by the same percentage.
Some 14,300 LO union members had been scheduled to take
strike action, including at Aker Solutions AKSOA.OL , Adecco
ADEN.S , Kongsberg Gruppen's KOG.OL Maritime unit and Aibel,
partly owned by Norway's Ferd and Sweden's Ratos RATOb.ST .
(Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, Editing by Terje Solsvik and
Matthew Lewis)
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