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The State Conciliation and Mediation Officer, Ríkissáttasemjari in Icelandic, is a public officer appointed for a term of five years by the Minister of Social Affairs and Equality to help mediate industrial disputes between trade unions and employers. His position is grounded in the Act on Trade Unions and Industrial Disputes of 1938.
The State Conciliation and Mediation Officer:
- acts as an intermediary between the disputing parties, assists in their deliberations and helps in finding common ground between them.
- monitors wage developments and prospects throughout the country as well as issues that could be a source of dispute between employers and unions.
- keeps a record of all wage agreements in effect in the country.
- “An attempt to crush the trade union”
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Frustrated cabin crew (above) gathered for a meeting during wage negotiations with Icelandair. The Icelandic trade union got support from the Nordic Transport Workers' Federation:
“According to the information we received from our Icelandic affiliate FFÍ, the Icelandic press has cited from a reliable source that Icelandair plans to solve the negotiations for the renewal of a collective agreement for its cabin crew by changing the negotiating union. We strongly condemn the plan and advice the company to withdraw from it. We have seen similar union-busting moves from other countries and the result is never good, for any party involved.”
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