The parties to the teacher strike will meet again – VG

The parties to the teacher strike will meet again – VG

The parties to the teacher strike was late Monday night agreed to create dialogue and initiate new processes.

Parties to teach conflict – Education Association and KS – met Monday at the State mediator to investigate whether there were still grounds to talk. The meeting ended late Monday night.

– meeting concluded. We concluded that there are grounds to initiate certain processes. That creates a dialogue between the parties. It’s the only thing I can say now, illuminated Education Association negotiator Ragnhild Lied NTB 23.50 o’clock Monday night.

She wanted Monday night not to elaborate more what she put in the term “processes”. Office of the mediator is more specific in his description of the meeting.

– It was a constructive dialogue that provides the basis for further discussions. The question that mediation case raises are complex and it takes time to process them in a proper manner, according to the Office of mediator.

Also read: These schools are affected by the strike.

Parties and mediators were therefore Monday night agreed that they should meet again.

– mediators and the parties agree that it is appropriate to use Tuesday and Wednesday to særmøter between mediators and the parties as required, and any contact between the parties and the internal deliberations of the Parties, according to the Office of mediator.

The parties also agreed to hold the next meeting Thursday at 10.

KS key

Education Association motart, KS, representing municipalities employer. KS ‘negotiator Per Kristian Sundnes was Monday evening tight-lipped when he spoke to NTB.

– This is not over, said Sundnes.

It is believed that Sundnes sits with the probably is the key to a solution: A new and significantly revised offer of working agreement for teachers. Of meetings Monday night took place “in all forms.”

Escalation

KS and the union was Monday 26 May agreed to a new working agreement for teachers. But most of the members of the union said no to the agreement in the referendum before the summer. Thus, the union took out 36 teachers at Rothaugen School in Bergen on strike on July 1. This was true symbolic, since withdrawal occurred during the summer holidays.

The Union stepped up the strike on Monday with 5,500 teachers in middle schools and high schools. Some schools start up Wednesday and Thursday this week, but most places are not starting school until Monday next week. There is therefore still no students affected by the strike.

The three smaller teaching unions Norwegian Association of Graduate Teachers (NL), School Association (SL) and Musicians Community Association (MF) said no to the Office of the mediator draft in May, and have taken some of their members on strike. they also notifies the escalation at school.

In Oslo, anyway no teacher strikes since the city is a separate tariff area, and teachers have been agreed to its negotiated agreement.