Around 24,000 workers in the transportation, energy, construction, and the food and drink industries have been on strike across Norway since Sunday. The action was called by the main trade union association Landesorganisasjonen (LO) and the smaller Federation of Vocational Unions (YS) after talks broke down over the employer’s organisation’s …
Read More »Welcome to Liz Truss’ Britain. Everyone’s going on strike – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article LONDON — As Liz Truss gets down to work as Britain’s new prime minister, she faces an immediate problem. Half the British workforce appears to be going on strike. Across the country, rail workers, barristers, dockhands, bus drivers, garbage collectors, Amazon employees, and …
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The advertisement is intended to mark 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the country. “Posten is an inclusive workplace with great diversity, and we would like to celebrate the 50th anniversary with this beautiful love story,” Monica Solberg, the company’s marketing director, told Kampanje, Norway’s advertising trade magazine. …
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