Tag: Norway

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…

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…