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Norwegians welcome election result & say now stop liberalisation

Published: 24 September 2009
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UNI Post & Logistics Norwegian affiliate, Postkom, says it is delighted with the recent election result in Norway that saw the Labour Party and coalition partners re-elected. In a message to the new Government, Odd-Christian Overland, President of Postkom has said;


"We've now got the government we wanted to have, but we also expect that it meets the policies that the labour movement stood for before the election. How the government would deal with the 3rd Postal Directive and post liberalisation was most important for postal workers in Norway. The government must immediately signal that they will ask the EU for a postponement of the directive and start a process that considers the consequences of using the Norwegian reservation right against the directive".


"The introduction of post directive in its current form will be drastic for people and businesses, particularly in rural Norway. It will mean a worse and more expensive service. We risk a slower mail service, that we lose 6 days a week delivery and that the services will be more expensive for most. This government can stop this by not accepting the directive", said Overland


Postkom says that it is difficult to see that there is an alternative to using reservation clause in the EEA Agreement to stop the postal directive.



"In our opinion, the use of reservation law is the only way to ensure good mail services in the country, said Overland. He added that other unions throughout Europe were seeing the terrible mistake with the 3rd Directive and UNI Global Union and it's affiliates were mobilising for a Moratorium on the implementation of the Directive in the EU as well.