NORWAY: LABOR ACCUSES GOVERNMENT OF SITTING ON ITS HANDS.(in SAS layoff situation)(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, May, 2003

The Labor Party has accused the Government and Trade and Industry Minister Ansgar Gabrielsen of not being vigorous enough in their efforts to prevent the loss of Norwegian jobs at Gardermoen. "I feel it is a huge disappointment and very sad that over 400 people will lose their jobs at Gardermoen.

We in the Labor Party feel the Government and Mr. Gabrielsen have been sitting on their hands in this matter. It was only after pressure from the Storting that the Trade and Industry Minister even bothered to contact SAS to uphold Norwegian interests, and by then, of course, it was too late," said Labor's economic policy spokeswoman Hill-Marta Solberg in an interview with NTB. (Source: Odin.dep.no)