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Norwegian airline employees on Thursday signaled their opposition to low-cost carrier Wizz Air, which starts daily domestic flights in Norway.
Organized in the Pilots Association and the Cabin Association in Parat on Thursday were the community guards at the airports of Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger and Bodø. There they report on the consequences of flying with Wizz Air.
Fredrik Hagen / NTB
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The background of the action is the working conditions of the employees of the Hungarian airline. In October, Executive Vice President József Váradi told E24 that the company would not enter into collective agreements with unions.
The action takes place at the airports of Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger and Bodø under the auspices of the employee organization Parat.
The leader of the Pilots Association, Captain Oddbjørn Holsether in Norwegian, believes that many only see low prices and forget what it costs employees in the form of poor working conditions.
– We circulate the Norwegian model in working life, tripartite cooperation. An orderly and organized working life with good conditions is the basis of our state of well-being. If working conditions deteriorate and the human right to organize disappears, the welfare state will also disappear. So we think community policing is the correct title for what we do today, Holsether tells NTB.
They are planning additional actions.
– We do not have specific dates, but it will be one day in the fight against social dumping in Norway, we do not believe it. We will probably have to intervene several times to get the attention of politicians, he says.
In an email sent to NTB on Wednesday, the company’s communications manager Andras described Rado Wizz Air as an open and inclusive company.
– We respect people’s opinions as well as the principles of other companies and organizations, even if they are not common. Wizz Air’s most valuable and most retained asset is its employees. They are treated and valued accordingly in all the airline’s markets, in accordance with the respective local regulations, he writes.
Wizz Air began flights in Norway on Thursday. The Pilots Association and the Cabin Association of Parat are on social surveillance at the airports where they report on the consequences of using the Hungarian company.
Fredrik Hagen / NTB
