Togstreiken escalate: – We did not come up to some things – NRK

We did not come up to some things, and we went a long way to go NSB in the face, ” says chairman Rolf Ringdal of the Norwegian Lokomotivmannsforbund (NLF) the Norwegian broadcasting corporation NRK just after the clock 04 night to Wednesday.

Then had the parties gone from each other after sitting together for 16 hours.

We were not agree because if you obviously don’t want to agree with us about a national standard. We have had a counterparty has been steep with the intention to pay attention to security, and that passengers will get a normal train service again, ” says Ringdal.

the Strike escalate with six new lokførere on the Sørlandsbanen from today. The outlet is in Kristiansand city in order not to increase the pressure in southeastern norway further. Together will then 124 lokførere be on strike.

Thousands of commuters on the south, and Sørlandsbanen, thus still stand in long queues and to find alternative means of transportation to get to work.

– We have offered the employer to hand over to the authorities to determine the lokførerkompetansen and then only have a temporary agreement until this work is completed. They have rejected. They were willing to enter into an agreement of eight months ‘ duration, and after that we should sit without any kompetanseregler for lokførere. It is not something we could accept as solution on a conflict, says Evind Gran, vice chairman of the LO State.

Range responds

On the employer side says Range that there was no real movement with the counterparty.

In reality has not Lokomotivmannsforbundet changed some positions. We are very disappointed and think it is highly regrettable that in over a night and a day have brought the passengers and customers of the railway behind the light, by creating hopes that this strike could be resolved, ” says communications director Gunnar Larsen in the Range to NRK.

When it comes to the core of the conflict, it turns out that they still want to have control of education and skills on forever in the collective agreement or in a special provision that is not tidsregulert, ” says Larsen.

It is conscripted to a forced mediation this coming Thursday.

Failed in a month

Lokførerne has failed since it was a breach in the arbitration 28. september.

The recent past has been characterized by full buses and long traffic jams on the pleasant hills at the gates to Oslo from Follo and Østfold, as all the commuter train on Østfoldbanen is set.

To the common features of these trains about 20,000 passengers daily.