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Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) makes it clear that Wizz Air cannot refuse employees to organize. Support the boycott of the company.
On Wednesday Prime Minister Erna Solberg took part in spontaneous Question Time at the Storting.
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– I will not fly with a company that refuses to organize workers, Solberg said in question time at the Storting on Wednesday.
– In the same way that I have never flown with Ryanair. Because ten years ago I said that it was unacceptable for me to travel with airlines that do not have adequate and orderly working conditions for their employees, he continued.
Solberg made it clear that under Norwegian law, Wizz Air cannot refuse employees to organize.
The backdrop is the statements of Wizz Air CEO József Váradi that Wizz Air “is an airline without unions.” The statement came when the company presented its plans for domestic routes in Norway.
NITO leader Trond Markussen praises the Prime Minister for the boycott.
– We think it is very good that political leaders also see that this can challenge Norwegian working life in a negative way. We will build sustainable societies, and then I really appreciate that we have a prime minister who is so clear in his speech, says Markussen.
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Solberg’s answer comes to questions from Jonas Gahr Støre, who believes that most people in Norway will distance themselves from the statements presented by the Wizz Air manager.
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The union LO Industri Energi is behind the call to boycott the low-cost Hungarian company.
– When Wizz Air closes the door on the union movement and a decent organized working life, we close the door on them, union leader Frode Alfheim told VG this weekend.
Erna’s response to the boycott comes to Jonas Gahr Støre’s questions:
– This company is on the way, it will be installed in Norway. What signals does it send that we get an actor who has the attitudes of people who do honest work? What is the attitude of the Prime Minister and what does she intend to do with this regrettable relationship? Jonas Gahr Støre asked at the Storting on Wednesday.
These are outrageous statements by the head of Wizz Air, Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre said when he raised the issue with the Prime Minister.
– An industry that is used to orderly conditions now sees the disorder coming to light, he said.
Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air is one of the largest in Europe and has already operated several routes to Norway for 14 years.
From Oslo, they will now fly routes to Bergen four times a day, Tromsø four times a day and Trondheim twice a day. Ticket prices will start at 199 crowns.
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Forbidden to refuse to organize
According to Solberg, Wizz Air has the opportunity to establish domestic routes in Norway. But they must comply with Norwegian laws and regulations, he says.
– It is forbidden to deny trade union organization in Norway. There is no doubt about it. It is the individual person and the group of employees who decide if they want to organize. Everyone has the right to demand a collective agreement at their workplace, Solberg said at the Storting.
In Norway, freedom of association is essential, he said.
– It is not the owners or managers of companies who decide if people are organized. It is the people themselves, the employed people, who decide that they should organize.
The Parliamentary representative of the Progress Party, Erlend Wiborg, who heads the Storting’s Labor and Social Affairs Committee, for his part, opposes the boycott.
– The fact that we have more companies that want to fly in Norway is good. It creates more competition and also increases the possibility of starting air traffic from Moss Airport Rygge again, says Wiborg.
You are aware that there is freedom of association in Norway, regardless of what Wizz Air or others say. But it makes little sense of the boycott.
– I don’t want to boycott a legal company that complies with the laws you have in Norway.
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Respond to criticism
The founder and CEO of Wizz Air, József Váradi, is reacting to criticism from those who want to boycott the company.
– Unions are not my thing. They do what we do, if they want to boycott me, I don’t care, Váradi told DN yesterday.
The Wizz Air leadership believes that unions make companies less efficient and that it affects both taxpayers and employees. You flatly reject that it is relevant to enter into collective agreements with unions if you want to have employees in Norway:
– No, that’s not the plan. We are an airline without unions, Váradi told E24 yesterday.
– We are proud of the culture of our company. We have an open and good dialogue within the company, including with an employee council, he continued.
