(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
LO and Ap on the same page as the Progress Party? The Right and the NHO open arms wide open for the strangers? What happens when labor immigration is put on the agenda?
Blessed Karl Marx wanted to put it in terms of basis and superstructure: As economic realities change, attitudes and thoughts change as well. And the new economic reality in Norway is that it is the seller's labor market. NHO members, and the right-wing donors, struggle to find unemployed people at a reasonable price.
Now there are several ways to solve a problem, and it is so far strange that the National Organization puts its foot down only for the labor immigration solution. At the same time as NHO wants to meet the "pressure in the labor market" with increased immigration, the LO management has largely accepted that monetary and fiscal policy is used to increase the reserve workforce – ie the number of unemployed. Yngve Hågensen will hardly be able to take part in such a presentation of LO's views. Nevertheless, it is difficult to see that the LO leadership has raised its voice against the government's and Norges Bank's policy, which is precisely intended to "ease the pressure in the labor market" in order to "reduce the risk of inflation". Labor leader Thorbjørn Jagland, for his part, expresses fear of "a new wage and price spiral". For both the Labor Party leader's and LO's defense, it must be said that the right wing contributes to increase the pressure when it is cut in labor market measures. Fewer of the unemployed are able to enter vacancies. Therefore, NHO should place one condition for continued donations to the Right: Do not cut the grant money as you did last year. It loses vi on.
Regardless: The latest figures from Norges Bank, the Labor Market Office and Statistics Norway show that the government is succeeding in tightening. Unemployment is on the rise, and thus, to a greater extent, the labor market is becoming a buyer. With current interest rates and fiscal policy, for example, it is permissible to hope that the consumption of IT services will go down, and that various IT companies will lose ground. This may mean that the surviving IT companies no longer have to pay strangled 19-year-olds who have played a lot of computer games 400 kroner a year, in the absence of more skilled labor.
Fiscal and monetary policy – not to mention work qualification – however, is a slow matter. Monetary policy is also extremely imprecise, because it not only curbs growth in sectors with growing pains, but in the economy as a whole. Fiscal policy instruments are often anti-competitive and therefore banned in EEA countries. Work qualification is made more difficult by the fact that the 65 unemployed who are left will either spend a long time on qualification or are tied up in the wrong place in the country. For NHO's members, importing labor is a far more convenient solution. Also so cheap, then given!
This is how immigrant-skeptical groups are traditionally turned into immigrant friends. Business leaders who did not want to touch dark-skinned people with firearms when they could choose a Norwegian, are now forced to hire Vietnamese and Pakistanis – whether they already exist in Norway, or must be imported.
But so are the immigrant friends, among others in LO to immigration skeptics, and Øystein Hedstrøm applauds wildly. No matter what the trade union movement mener to say, they are easily interpreted in the direction of "immigrants taking our jobs".
