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Text messages between Councilor Inga Marte Thorkildsen (SV) and Education Director Marte Gerhardsen showed that they both feared a teachers’ strike after Dagbladet’s revelation about a pay party at the Oslo school.
The SMS correspondence that Dagbladet has had access to also reveals a close dialogue between the two school leaders and the leader of the Education Association in Oslo, Aina Skjefstad Andersen, as criticism against the principal and the city council increased.
«(…) I have spoken with Aina for a long time this afternoon about what a wise message can be. I will reply to Dagbladet tomorrow»Marte Gerhardsen writes in an SMS to Thorkildsen shortly after Dagbladet’s first case about the salaried party.
Inga Marte Thorkildsen replies in an SMS the day after Marte Gerhardsen must make sure Dagbladet interviews Aina Skjefstad Andersen.
«Important: Talk to Aina now, she has UDF, fortunately. You have to say that you want to hang out with the organizations at MBU. The last thing there is is important. Let it be done at MBU. And ask the reporter to talk to her. Agree?»Councilor Thorkildsen writes to Gerhardsen on Friday 23 October.
MBU is an abbreviation of the co-determination committee at the Oslo school. UDF stands for Utdanningsforbundet.
Text messages reveal: peaks feared a big strike
– Special
Other unions at the Oslo school are now reacting strongly to the Education Association’s involvement, as shown in text messages Dagbladet has had access to.
In particular, the criticism goes against Aina Skjefstad Andersen from the Education Association, and the fact that she helped Gerhardsen find “a wise message” according to the Dagbladet article.
– Since we at the School Leaders Association interpret these text messages, we find it very special that the school principal and county team leader in the Education Association collaborate on a media strategy to make the pay party a edible for employees of the Oslo school. In fact, teachers, school leaders, and all school staff have been at the forefront and given broader responsibilities over the past year. At least that would have been our answer to such a question, Trond Nilsen, leader of the Association of School Leaders, tells Dagbladet.
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– Game agreed print
Kathe Lundahl, chief union delegate for social scientists at the education agency, also reacts to the behavior of the Education Association.
– I react strongly to what we know here. I have especially noted the content of the SMS exchange between the agency director and the school board. It shows that the agency director has long spoken with the leader of the Education Association in Oslo about what a wise message can be in the situation that has arisen, says Lundahl.
– It is easy to get the impression that here there is a game agreed to “clean up” and that the reprimand of the department directors of the city council has been a pure process of skin, which in that case is not very reliable, he continues.
In the Facebook group “Behind the facade of the Oslo school”, many teachers have expressed great dissatisfaction with the salary share of the principals who run the school through the education agency.
While others raged, Skjefstad Andersen did not want to criticize the salaried party when it came out.
Millions of scouts: – Idiot
– Completely natural contact
On Monday, it was announced that an extraordinary hearing on the matter will be held at the Oslo City Hall, where Inga Marte Thorkildsen will be responsible for running the Oslo school in light of Dagbladet’s notice.
Aina Skjefstad Andersen rejects the criticism now directed at her.
– I received backlash from our members, and then it was completely natural for me to contact the city council and the director to convey the strong reactions, says Aina Skjefstad Andersen to Dagbladet.
She denies having acted as a communication advisor to Mars Gerhardsen.
– You helped Gerhardsen find ‘a wise message’. That’s your job?
– My job is to convey the reactions of my members, and that is what I did in this case as well. When it refers to a wise message, it probably refers to my initiative to change the practice regarding administrative salary supplements. It was important for me to get the agreement that we had reached, so that my members would know about it.
– Was he too closely related to Gerhardsen and Thorkildsen, as suggested?
– No, this is a completely natural dialogue. I think my limbs would have reacted strongly if I hadn’t done anything. I wrote a note to the city council and the director, after our dialogue, summarizing what we agreed on regarding the practice change.
– The dialogue I had with Thorkildsen and Gerhardsen, hopefully contributes to a better practice in the future, and gives us the opportunity to discuss the salary configuration in advance.
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Solution found
On Saturday, October 24, Dagbladet wrote that Thorkildsen and Gerhardsen had agreed to change the procedures for salary increases among directors in the future. By then, Thorkildsen, Gerhardsen and Skjefstad Andersen had found a solution in the chamber, according to the SMS.
Dagbladet has also documented millions spent on consultants, headhunters, and American leadership training. The opposition in Oslo, as well as several in the Storting, have reacted strongly to the use of money in the Oslo school run by SV and Thorkildsen.
