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– We have restaurants, clubs, hotels and transport companies in Oslo that have been much more profitable.
In a new Facebook post on his own profile, Oslo City Councilor Raymond Johansen (Labor Party) opposes both Center Party leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum and Norwegian airline.
– Trygve Slagsvold Vedum describes himself as “close to the people.” But when he goes to the Storting rostrum with a Norwegian tie around his neck to ask the government to save the company, he is closer to big international capital than the Norwegian workers, Johansen writes in the publication.
Also read: Raymond & Co. will not cut wages: – Sensational and unfriendly
He appeared with a Norwegian tie
The incident the city council leader refers to is when Vedum during Storting question time in early November, wearing a Norwegian tie, challenged Erna Solberg on why the government will not do more to save the airline. loaded with debt.
The party leader received a response to an accusation from the prime minister, who wondered how much of the taxpayers’ money the Center Party and Vedum were willing to use to save the company.
Johansen has previously written a number of posts stating that jobs in Oslo are just as important as those in the oil industry and in Norwegian. Among other things, he wrote in a post dated November 17 that he was disappointed that the government did not defend those who lived in Groruddalen as much as it did for southwestern Norway when the oil industry was in crisis.
– Many of those who are now unemployed work in hotels, shops, restaurants and transportation.
A separate crisis package should have been drawn up for the areas with the highest unemployment figures, he wrote.
– More profitable
Now the town council leader takes the magazine out of his mouth again. In the new post, he points out that there are several companies and businesses in Oslo that are much more profitable.
Read more: Solberg and Vedum in a clinch on Norwegian
– We have restaurants, nightclubs, hotels and transport companies in Oslo that have been much more profitable than Norwegian. That he has stuck to his own core business. That you have not transferred your employees to staffing agencies. And who has not moved their property out of the country and challenged the Norwegian working life model, he says.
See the video of when Vedum challenged Solberg here:
The city council leader continues the message with the fact that many of Oslo’s core businesses need help and thousands of workers are on the ground.
– Norwegian should not sneak into the queue of Norwegian crisis packages, he concludes.
More than NOK 40 billion in debt
On Wednesday November 18, Norwegian filed for bankruptcy protection in Ireland for its two subsidiaries in an attempt to secure the company for the future. They are over 40 billion NOK in debt and the company is reported to be out of cash in March 2021.
In early November, it also became clear that the government refused to provide further support to the airline, which in March used the government’s loan guarantee scheme, where three out of every six billion crowns were directed to the company.
Also read: Norwegian applies for bankruptcy process: comes with a guarantee for clients
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