Sweden: manufacturing unions adopt new model agreement

come into force on July 1, 2011 and replace the previous one which dated back to 1997. It defines the rules that will supervise bargaining and future conflict that could result from it, and mostly reassesses that the wage agreement negotiated in the manufacturing industry serves as a reference for other negotiations. It is currently subject to the social partners for ratification. In fact, the proposed agreement tried to learn from the 2010 bargaining round, mostly the separate pay negotiat