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NHO Service og Handel Director Anne-Cecilie Kaltenborn hopes the offer will lead the parties to reach an agreement. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB
On Wednesday, NHO submitted a new offer to the guards. Now they take the magazine out of their mouths after being silent during the six weeks of the guards’ strike: – Things have been said in the media about what we have offered and in which we do not recognize ourselves, says the executive director, Anne- Cecilie Kaltenborn.
In a press release to VG on Thursday morning, the employers’ organization NHO Service og Handel testifies for the first time on negotiations related to the strike by the security guards, after a strike period of nearly six weeks.
The press release came in connection with the organization on Wednesday morning that sent an offer to the guards, who are represented through the Parat employee organization and the Norwegian Workers’ Union (NAF).
The organization’s offer has yet to be responded to, according to NHO. This surprises Anne-Cecilie Kaltenborn, CEO of NHO Service og Handel.
– Here we have gone a little beyond the framework, and the background of this is that this occupational group has gradually acquired more skills and more responsibilities, and it is important that companies maintain them. We also meet employee demands on other points, like better conditions for apprentices and early payment of sickness benefits, says Kaltenborn.
In the press release, Kaltenborn writes that employees have now received a better deal than most groups received this year, including industry.
– The offer will award security guards NOK 8,000 in an annual salary increase and meet all major requirements. Neither NAF nor Parat have responded to the offer.
HISTORICALLY LONG GUARD STRIKE: Six weeks of strikes and increasing escalation have yet to lead to an agreement between the parties. In the photo, the guards have a mark outside the Securitas headquarters. Photo: Håkon Mosvold Larsen
The other party responds: – Fifty øre extra per hour
Parat’s chief negotiator, Lars Petter Larsen, reacts to the fact that the other party has made the offer public. He believes that the NHO proposal is a circumvention of the mediation duty of confidentiality and criticizes the offer.
– It is gratifying that they now recognize the competence and responsibility of the guards with an extra fifty øre per hour beyond the frame of the frontal subject. When we parted ways in the last mediation, I commented that the tender was worse than we went on strike, Larsen writes in an SMS to VG on Thursday morning.
Kaltenborn, on the other hand, still hopes that this can lead to a solution to this six-week labor dispute.
She emphasizes the seriousness of the situation after an entire industry, already badly affected by infection control measures, has now gone on strike for six weeks.
The parties have previously tried to reach an agreement with the mediator, without success.
– This unfortunate strike has already lasted a long time, and there has been a lot of talk in the media about what we have offered in what we do not recognize ourselves and that does not rhyme with what has been our line to the end, says Kaltenborn at NHO.
During the strike period, Parat and NAF together took out more than 2,000 guards on strike.
This has caused headaches and difficulties in various parts of the country, including train stations, shopping malls and hotels.
Previously, Kaltenborn wanted to resolve the conflict with the mediator and not with the media. As this has not yet produced results, the organization now wants to be open about its views on the negotiations.
– We cannot reveal what has been said during the mediation, but we want frankness about our intent in this agreement. That is why today we come out with an offer that we have made of external mediation, for which there are many opportunities. We hope it contributes to a better understanding, more trust and a solution, says Kaltenborn.
NHO: you think you have met the requirements
Kaltenborn believes that in this offer they have met NAF and Parat in their main requirements.
Altogether, this is more than the limit on the head-on issue of 1.7 percent growth in this demanding year. Therefore, we hope and believe that this offer may lead to an end to the conflict, says Kaltenborn.
Here is the latest offer for the guards:
* NOK 2 per hour as a general supplement to all current basic wages, as well as NOK 1 to help approximate wages for industrial workers. A total of NOK 3 per hour.
* NOK 2 per hour in addition to weekends, nights and shifts.
* Companies do not have the right to discriminate against company employees with regard to prepayment of sickness benefits. Equal treatment applies no later than January 1, 2022.
* Requirements for apprentices’ rights have been met, including that their apprenticeship must count as one year seniority at first job, that their work plans must be notified two weeks in advance, and that their rotation plans must be discussed with the employee’s side.
* The companies agree that during the period of the agreement they will analyze the issue of involuntary part-time work and discuss it with the union representatives twice a year.
