Auto body and detailing workers at Andresen Karosseri (Ski) strike for a collective agreement (from 18 March 2026)

A court has thrown out an attempt to remove the pickets from outside the workshop, and the strike for a collective agreement continues into its fifth month.

The landlord of the premises in Åsveien — whose chairman also chairs Andresen Karosseri itself — asked the courts for an injunction barring union representatives from the private forecourt. He argued the pickets had blockaded the gate unlawfully, in particular for a week in early June when deliveries and staff were prevented from entering, and that they would do so again.

The union countered that the blockade had been lawful and that the case was an indirect attack on the right to take industrial action. It presented the court with what it said were plain examples of strikebreaking, arguing that pickets must be able to mount an effective blockade if struck work is not simply to be carried out by others.

On 10 July the Follo and Nordre Østfold District Court refused the application, finding no risk that unlawful blockades would be repeated, and ordered the landlord to pay all legal costs. The union's collective bargaining head called the outcome an important win for the right to strike, saying the opposite result would have forced pickets off the site and left them able only to watch strikebreaking from a distance.

The four workers have been out since 18 March, seeking a collective agreement that would give them a proper wage system, real co-determination and access to the AFP occupational pension.

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