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Trade unions
Roles and responsibilities
Trade unions safeguard their members’ interests and ensure employee participation at the workplace. They have to roles: a collective role where they participate in meetings with the management and are included in the decision-making processes, and a role where they represent the union members in individual cases.
Trade unions responsibilities are to:
- Collectively
- participate in meetings with the employer and be included in decision-making processes
- prepare demands for new agreements
- For their members
- take care of their members’ interests in main and local salary settlements
- offer help during work conflicts and similar situations
- represent their members in connection with employment
- keep their members informed about current salary and work issues
Membership fee
- The membership fee amount is determined by the trade union of which you are a member.
- Some trade unions bill their members for the fee, others have an agreement with the employer that the quota is automatically deducted from the employee's salary every month.
- The trade union fee is tax deductible according to the Norwegian Tax Authorities' rate for trade union fee and will be listed as a deduction in the pre-filled tax return you receive from the Norwegian Tax Authorities in the following year.
Trade unions at UiO
- Federation of Norwegian Professional Associations (Akademikerne) - is a central organisation consisting of 13 trade unions and several cooperation partners, see overview (Norwegian)
- Norwegian Association of Researchers (Forskerforbundet) - represents all of Unio's trade unions at UiO, se overview (unio.no)
- Norwegian Civil Service Union (NTL) - represents all of LO Stat's trade unions at UiO, see overview (lostat.no) (Norwegian)
- Parat - represents all of YS Stat's trade unions at UiO, see overview (ys.no) (Norwegian)
Common contact address for all trade unions at UiO: hovedtillitsvalgte@uio.no
Safety representatives
Safety representatives shall be engaged in cases of importance for the working environment. Their role is described in the Working Environment Act (pdf) (arbeidstilsynet.no) . Examples:
- Ensure that the safety, health and welfare of all members of staff are properly taken care of; see for example the