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There is a mediation deadline for the settlement of wages both in the state and in the municipalities and the municipality of Oslo at midnight on Thursday night.
Here are the consequences if there is no agreement in the various settlements:
- The municipal agreement: If there is a rift between the Norwegian Medical / Academic Association and KS, doctors across the country can go on strike starting next week.
- The state agreement: If there is a violation, a number of agencies, ministries and directorates can be affected by the strike. Withdrawal from the strike is initially relatively limited.
- The Oslo agreement: If there is a break in the agreement between Oslo and the Main Association of Municipal Employees (KAH), the union will take 1,600 members on strike from Thursday, many of them in kindergartens and activity schools. Employees of the Deichman libraries in Bjørvika and Byantikvaren can also go on strike.
No restriction on guard orders
Knut Arne Wensaas, union delegate for GPs in Bergen, writes in a press release that there is mediation between academics and KS.
The deadline for reaching an agreement is Wednesday, October 14 at midnight.
– We do not know what the result will be, but we are preparing for a conflict.
One of the areas concerns the special agreement that regulates the on-call work of GPs.
– Being a general practitioner entails the duty to also participate in outpatient tasks in addition to having the responsibility of the patient on your list. Now there is no limit to the amount of shift work doctors may have to write, writes Wensaas.
On Thursday, he announces a brand in Torgallmenningen.
– Then I want to be with some of the younger doctors in Bergen. We also received a visit from Nils Kristian Klev, leader of the Association of General Practitioners, which is the professional association of physicians of the Norwegian Medical Association.
Requires less work in the emergency room
A gap in medical mediation could affect municipal emergency services across the country in the coming weeks. The academics have yet to announce how many they will eliminate in a possible first strike, so a strike can only start in four days minimum in accordance with the duty to notify.
– Emergency physicians are imposed an unjustifiable workload that weakens recruitment for both the GP scheme and the emergency department, says President Marit Hermansen in a statement on the Norwegian Medical Association website about the conflict with KS.
She says that general medical services in the smaller municipalities work an average of 37.7 hours on call per week, either on call, at home or on call, in addition to a full-time job as a GP. A quarter of the doctors had more than 52.8 hours a week.
The demands of the medical association in the negotiations still contain exceptions to the Work Environment Law, but give the doctor the right to refuse more than seven hours of emergency care per week, corresponding to 28 hours of emergency care.
KS responds that the whole system is based on the GPs going to the ER.
– Then it is not possible to let the individual doctor decide when he will work, says chief negotiator Tor Arne Gangstø at KS, to NRK.
In practice, he says, this will mean that residents of some municipalities will be left without an emergency room when they need emergency help.
Optimistic national mediator
In the state settlement, the four main associations LO, YS, Unio and Akademikerne participate in mediation with the state.
Various agencies, ministries and directorates may be affected by the strike if the parties to the state agreement do not agree before midnight on Thursday. Withdrawal from the strike is initially relatively limited.
A main topic in the agreement is salary supplements.
Ombudsman Mats Wilhelm Ruland had faith in a solution when he delivered a report on the status of the state agreement to the press at 7 pm Wednesday night.
– There is a little roller coaster now in the sprint, but there is a good atmosphere and I am optimistic, Ruland said, according to FriFagbevegelse.
