Sweden: agreement only just reached in banking and finance

Long and stormy negotiations with the economic crisis in the background.  Opened in October 2010, the talks lasted and led to an extension of the previous agreement which should have expired on December 31, 2010.  Growing tired of the bargaining deadlock, Finansförbundet decided, on February, to issue a strike notice on overtime and, for executives, travel abroad.  Such notices are rare in the banking sector yet 82% of Finansförbundet members said they supported it.
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Long and stormy negotiations with the economic crisis in the background. Opened in October 2010, the talks lasted and led to an extension of the previous agreement which should have expired on December 31, 2010. Growing tired of the bargaining deadlock, Finansförbundet decided, on February, to issue a strike notice on overtime and, for executives, travel abroad. Such notices are rare in the banking sector yet 82% of Finansförbundet members said they supported it.

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