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When the municipalities of Haram, Sandøy, Skodje, Ørskog and Ålesund were merged into one municipality in January 2020, the salary of many of the teachers in the new large municipality was reduced.
Several teachers are said to have had their salary reduced by NOK 10,000 a year, according to Frifagbevegelse.
At the same time, many of the top managers of the new Ålesund municipality have received solid salary supplements compared to the jobs from which they came in their respective municipalities.
According to the daily Nytt i Uka, the former councilor, now municipal director of the large municipality, raised 114,000 crowns compared to the previous salary. New salary: NOK 1.5 million.
The municipal director does not want to comment on the case to Dagbladet. However, he emphasizes that he applied for a new position when the municipalities merged and that therefore it would be a mistake to compare current salaries with previous salaries.
Agreement with the salaried party: – Horrible
– All in cabbage
The former Skodje municipality councilor, now deputy councilor in the large municipality, raised 287,000 crowns to an annual salary of 1.2 million, according to Frifagbevegelse.
Professor Christian Holstad Lilleng is furious. Gone himself ned 6,000 crowns a year. The size of the salary reduction varies depending on the municipality the teachers come from, but most have reduced their salaries, according to Holstad Lilleng.
– We are completely run over. When teachers lose their salary, while municipal caps go up so much, obviously it has been completely wasted for the municipality. We don’t feel taken seriously, he tells Dagbladet.
Ålesund Municipality has not responded to Dagbladet’s questions about the case.
Check the directors salary party
Dispute the legality
Holstad Lilleng says that he also questions the legality of what the municipality of Ålesund has done.
Now he will meet with the municipality to present legal arguments that the salary reduction does not hold.
– I think it is against the law on the work environment to simply lower the wages of so many people. I think the municipality is really cycling in this case, he says.
Holstad Lilleng is also the chief shop steward for the National Association of Schools. Only representatives of Utdanningsforbundet have participated in the negotiation meetings with the municipality of Ålesund, according to Frifagbevegelse.
Respond to text messages: – Agreed game
– Forbanna
Federation secretary Mette Johnsen Walker of the National Association of Schools shakes her head.
In short, people are pissed off. This is not good at all, he tells Dagbladet.
Walker says it is surprising that the National Association of Schools was not contacted in the case.
– Here Ålesund should give us a basis in the Work Environment Act on how they can adopt something that reduces the wages of our members. We will continue with this. We are not called to meetings or negotiations on this issue either. We haven’t heard anything. We do not consider that we are bound by the protocol that the municipality of Ålesund has adopted.
Also in Oslo, many teachers are upset about salaries at the top of the schools.
New bill: 260,000 in American coaching
Salary and barbecue party
In a letter to the head of the school, Marte Gerhardsen, the shop stewards from the Fagerborg school recently settled down with the pay party at the Oslo school.
Dagbladet has also previously documented millions spent on consulting, headhunting, 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.
And yesterday SV Councilor Inga Marte Thorkildsen was summoned to a five-hour barbecue on the New Year’s pay party in the wake of the Dagbladet revelations.
