Swedish social partners are about to renew the collective conventions concerning one third of the kingdom's 9 million inhabitants, in a defiance atmosphere which is likely to lead to a conflict. In total, about 500 branch agreements should be renewed, in principle for a three-year period. (Ref. 070228)
All eyes are currently on the industry sector. The results of the ongoing negotiations, directly concerning almost 700,000 employees working in some 7,000 companies, will be decisive for other branches. All union organizations decided so. A tacit agreement which pressures the negotiators from the concerned sectors, a little less than three weeks to the expiry of the former agreement, at the end of March. Because they had not managed to find a common ground in February, they had to leave it
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