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Danish Strike Wave Met with Threats from Local Government Employers
Municipalities are considering employing a lockout against employees from labour union FOA on the grounds that the current strike is putting patients lives at risk.
Representatives from Local Government Denmark (KL) have indicated that the possibility of a long-term strike would be catastrophic for health care institutions and nursing homes, and they are now considering sending non-striking employees home without pay to pressure the unions into ending the conflict.
Erik Fabrin, KL's chairman, accused the unions of holding the nation's weakest citizens 'hostage' to their demands.
'At some point it no longer becomes reasonable that certain municipalities and workplaces whose employees are not with the strikers must shoulder the burden,' said Fabrin. 'It might therefore be necessary to take drastic measures and broaden the conflict through a lockout.'
Fabrin said that by instituting a lockout he hoped the government would intervene to end the strike. He added that a lockout is more likely in light of FOA's plans to send an additional 13,000 health care workers to the picket lines on Monday.
Henning Jørgensen, employment researcher at Aalborg University, said a lockout would likely force the government's hand to step in and end the strike.
'Denmark's highly efficient society is dependent on things such as our nursing care and child care facilities operating smoothly, and a lockout of FOA could effectively destabilise both sectors,' said Jørgensen.
KL does not have the same possibility of a lockout against employees of the Danish Nurses Association, who are also striking, because the union sent all its eligible strike employees out to the picket lines from day one.
If a lockout does occur, it would not be before next month because the law requires a four-week advance notice from KL. (RC)