Norway’s government steps in to break oil workers strike

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

OSLO, Norway — After forcing the end of a strike by airplane mechanics demanding higher wages by imposing compulsory arbitration on June 28, Labor Minister Marte Mjos Person did the same against striking oil workers a week later, this time…


Norway bus drivers strike demands living wage

Vol. 84/No. 40 - October 12, 2020

OSLO, Norway — “We are on strike because we can’t live on our low wages,” Rauf Husain, a local bus drivers’ union leader here, told the Militant. “Everything we buy has gone up, and our wages haven’t kept up.” In…


Protests in Norway defend women’s right to abortion

Vol. 82/No. 45 - December 3, 2018
Thousands marched in Oslo and around Norway Nov. 17 against threatened law to restrict women’s right to choose abortion. Middle sign says, “Abortion is not a bargaining chip.”

OSLO, Norway — Over 15,000 supporters of a woman’s right to choose abortion mobilized in 34 cities nationwide Nov. 17, marching against a proposed law that would restrict this right. “I feel it should be up to the woman,” Ine…