« Just need to argue about where to go »

Finnbjörn Hermannsson, President of ASÍ, believes that the consensus of states in the labor market is at this time and that the results of the agreement on collective bargaining have been clearly seen.

This is stated by Finnbjörn in a conversation with mbl.is following the presentation of the Compensation Committee on its spring report earlier this morning in the premises of the State Mediator.

The essential platform

The Compensation Statistics Committee is a co -operation committee of the State, Local Authorities and the overall labor market association on the preparation and utilization of numerical material on wages and economy in preparation and follow -up with collective bargaining agreements.

Finnbjörn said he was pleased with the role that the committee has played since it started at the end of 2019.

« This is a necessary forum where all the social partners come together and summarize what has been going on and what is happening and connect it to the community. Then we know where we come from and then we need to argue about where to go. »

Finnbjörn says the committee’s work has helped the social partners in recent years in reaching collective bargaining agreements.

« I have been sitting in many wage negotiations where disputes have largely revolved around where we are coming from or how development has been. With the work of the wage statistics committee, there is such a dispute from the story, » says Finnbjörn.

Walk in rhythm

Finnbjörn says that in light of the reconciliation that states at this time, it is necessary for all parties to be in line.

« We are now tied to both shoes of the collective bargaining agreements that have been made. How the development will be in the future depends on how other parties in the market behave. Here I mean the store and the oil companies to form. »

Strengthening has been strengthened by the króna and Finnbjörn says there is every reason to lower prices in Iceland that have not been the case. So he does not say everyone is in line.

« It is very unnatural that when workers have tied their hands with collective bargaining, others play their own cards without taking into account where we are going, » Finnbjörn adds.