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Public sector strike in Norway shuts down hundreds of schools, kindergartens
OSLO - Thousands of teachers, carers and policemen have gone on strike in Norway in a protest over wages, shutting down hundreds of kindergartens and schools in the middle of exam time.
Trade union umbrella group UNIO says some 25,000-30,000 public sector workers went on strike early Thursday, demanding higher annual raises to their salaries.
Stein Erik Syrstad, a spokesman for the Norwegian Federation of State Employee Unions, says annual raises within the country's public sector are not on par with the private sector, where workers receive annual pre-tax raises of up to 8 per cent compared with the less than 4 per cent hike offered to those employed by the state.
Oslo Police spokesman Joern Joergensen says the Breivik court case will be unaffected by the strike.
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