Solidarity With The Dockers

Then we start in Tromso. First day of twelve days in action. SOLIDARITY WITH THE DOCKERS! https://www.facebook.com/events Dockers Hangarounds:http://tinyurl.com/ng3n5sk https://www.facebook.com/vegard.holm.96/posts/10153227546606739?pnref=story This is written by Geir Skavern from the Fagforbundet Trondheim federation:

Then I moved to Tromso for a week. From 22 to 29 February I will stay at the port of Tromso. The dock workers in Tromsø has been out in sympathy strike for over two years. In this context, it campaigned against strike breakers and Nor Lines from 22 February to 4 March.

Fagforbundet Trondheim has sent me - with 8 others - to participate in the action week. Overall it's well over in excess of 25 from various associations and federations in Trondheim area that travels up to participate.

There have been battles in Norwegian ports since November 1, 2013.
The port workers' strike is one of the longest working conflicts in Norwegian history.

What happened was that Risavika Terminal AS Stavanger would not give Norwegian Transport Workers' Unions (NTF) a collective agreement containing preferential loading and unloading work.
Refusing dockers this is in contravention of ILO Convention 137; The ILO is the UN specialized agency for employment. Norway signed and ratified this convention in 1974. Norwegian Transport Workers' Union went to boycott Risavika Terminal AS in the fight to get a collective agreement.

About. one month after Risavika were dockers in Mosjoen and Tromso taken out in sympathy strikes. Both have got their own side story:

In Mosjoen went dockers active steps to protect the cornerstone company ALCOA. Thanksgiving for this was a struggle to get paid wages from Mosjoen Industrial Terminal.
8. May 2014 was Kr 598 000 million owed and the workers threatened to close down work unless they were paid the owed amount. Mosjoen Industrial Terminal responded by deleting access cards, and shut the workers out of the workplace - an illegal lockout. Today (22 February 2016) there are 656 days since dockers in Mosjoen were illegally barred from their workplace because they demanded to correct wage for already completed work before work could continue.

In Tromsø, the struggle has been almost unparalleled, here the police have been used against the strikers. The dock workers from Tromso stevedores Labourers - with the help of trade union comrades from across the country - has prevented strikebreaking through blockade, in sympathy with the strikers dockers Risavika harbor. It has been conducted demonstrations and blocking of strike-breaking work periodically since 7 December 2013.
June 14, 2014, all 41 people taken in by police; These were put in isolation cell in attendance four hours, and given fines of £. 4,000 -
Police have been used repeatedly against the strikers in Tromsø, and they took the employer's side. There have been irritably at times. Dialogue with Tromso police has improved, but with a conflict like this it is not easy to know what happens when the temperature rises.

It is important to distinguish between conflict by Risavika Terminal outside Stavanger (and sympathy strikes in Mosjoen and Tromsø), conflict with Holship Norway AS in Drammen and conflict in Oslo.

In Drammen and Risavika are required to establish a collective agreement.

The situation in Oslo harbor is that the established collective agreement being attacked by employers; The employer is the Turkish company Yilport, who took over the running of Sjursøya container terminal in Oslo on 1 February 2015.

Conflicts are still together. The connection between these cases is that employers are fighting to get rid of those registered (and organized) dockers, reduce ILO Convention 137s significance and scope, and remove the preferential right to work is regulated in both the Convention and the collective agreements.

The collective agreements debilitates the managerial prerogative. Social development has made it so that collective agreements and trade unions referred to as "anticompetitive." Private players want nationwide agreements removed in favor of individual agreements. The modern and flexible as wanted in the Norwegian working life is the employer's ability to set workers against each other - individual contracts, individual rights, individual salaries.
Confederation (LO) was founded in 1899 precisely to prevent the kind of serious exploitation and exploitation of workers.

We must use our power - workers' monopoly of labor - as tools to get employers to understand how things really stuck together!

- This is not a strike is over after three to four weeks. It might go for months or years. We have only just begun. There are many steps we can take and we'll dispensing this out over time, said Roger Hansen, head of the Norwegian Transport Workers' Union of class struggle on December 12, 2013.
There he got really quite right. It's been a long battle, but it begins now to move towards a final settlement?

Roger Hansen resigned with immediate effect on 16 February 2016 as head of the Norwegian Transport Workers' Unions. He would not be on a par with support actions dockers without collective agreement. Negotiation line has been unsuccessful, and now want the majority of the board an escalation with sympathy actions to put pressure on employers.

In the labor movement increases the mood to take steps to end the docker conflict.

Trondheim Conference in 2016, with 578 participants from across the country unanimously approved an invitation to trade union organizations now must increasingly develop solidarity ability and willingness to use methods of struggle as strikes, sympathy strikes, boycotts, blockades, go slow actions, obstruction and tab markings to sustain accrued wages and working conditions.

Trondheim Conference in 2016 also demanded that the Transport Workers Union in cooperation with LO and other LO union takes out several groups in sympathy strike by dockers.
Harbor Workers conflict represents a struggle Norwegian trade union and labor movement can not afford to lose.

I am proud that Fagforbundet Trondheim has taken such a strong and clear stance on this issue; I even been a part of several selections, including in Mosjoen and on the harbor in Oslo; Our deputy was one of those who were put in isolation cell and fined in Tromsø in 2014.

I look forward to what will be a busy and tiring week in Tromso.

Forward, comrades!