YS responds to lockout against oil workers
Offshore Norway has implemented a lockout against members of the YS union SAFE who are not included in the ongoing strike. YS Privat is responding.
The lockout concerns the ongoing labor dispute among SAFE's members in well service.
– Strikes are a legitimate and fundamental tool in the Norwegian working life model. Workers must have a real right to use legal means of struggle when wages and working conditions are not in reasonable proportion to responsibility, competence and burden, says leader of YS Privat, Eirik Bornø.
SAFE fights to ensure that certain groups of workers do not fall behind others in the same industry. SAFE's demands concern both wages and safe, orderly working conditions.
– The employer side should contribute constructively to a solution, not escalate the conflict in a way that could undermine the right to industrial action, says Bornø.
Strong collective agreements, real bargaining rights and respect for legal means of struggle are pillars of organized labor. YS and YS Privat stand in solidarity with SAFE and their members and encourage other YS unions to do the same.