Tag Archives: strike
‘EVERYTHING IS ALMOST NORMAL FOR NOW’: Local post office still receiving most mail despite strike by security workers, some packages may be sent by boat if strike continues
“PARALYZED” POST DUE TO STRIKE: Strike expansion by security workers means some Svalbard mail and packages can’t get required scanning; medicines still arriving

(Original story from Sunday updated to reflect expanded strike now occurring)
An expansion of a strike by security workers for Posten Norge means many packages and other mail destined for Svalbard are on hold because they cannot receive the require screening for air transport, although an alternative is place for pharmaceuticals and other critical items, officials said Tuesday.
SAS STRIKE OVER: Flights to Svalbard resume Friday after week-long walkout proves costly and troublesome
SAS MAKING ‘PRIORITY’ FLIGHTS TO SVALBARD: Airline will offer Oslo-Longyearbyen flights on Monday and Tuesday despite strike
STRIKE: AT SAS: Pilot walkout has ‘great consequences’ for ski marathon, may severely affect supermarket and others

A pilot strike that began at midnight at Scandinavian Airlines at midnight Friday will significant impact participation in this year’s Svalbard Skimaraton, although the race will go on as scheduled, and could severely affect shipments of fresh food to Svalbardbutikken if the walkout extends into next week, according to local officials.
ALERT: SAS STRIKE STARTING FRIDAY? Pilot walkout may halt Svalbard flights on eve of ski marathon, adding further misfortune to biggest one-day event of the year
Weekend walkout? Dozens of workers at Mine 7, Svea may join nationwide strike starting Sunday
ALERT: SAS strike cancelled at last moment, extra Svalbard flight scheduled to help cancer patient

A full-scale strike by Scandinavian Airlines pilots in Norway was averted as the last moment, but that was still too late for Jørn Dybdahl, a Longyearbyen resident whose Thursday flight to Oslo to receive cancer treatment was cancelled. So Dybdahl, never one to shy from expressing his views, expressed his frustration to one of Norway’s biggest newspapers – and helped 112 other travelers stranded here by doing so.
BREAKING: SAS pilots threaten to strike starting Thursday; local concert cancelled, weekend events face uncertainty
Working out: Store Norske avoids possible strike, may possibly strike it rich by reopening mines

Store Norske just finished shutting nearly everything down four months ago and most of the relatively few remaining workers were talking about going on strike. But the labor dispute was resolved quickly last week and a sustained rebound in coal prices is allowing the company putting together a proposal to resume operations at one or both of its two main mines next year.