Industrifacken, the association of manufacturing unions made up of Sveriges Ingenjörer (the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers), Unionen (the Trade Union for Professionals in the Private Sector), IF Metall (Swedish Metalworkers' Union) and LIVS (the Swedish Food Workers' Union) presented, on November 12, their claims for the 2013 bargaining round. They are aware of their responsibility and believe that their wage claims are in line with the economic reality. Still they are trying to make progress on related issues like parental leave or the duration of the agreement. (Ref. 120693)
Industrifacken calls for 2.8 percent. in previous years, Industrifacken called for wage increases around 3.7 percent. However, with regard to the extremely weak economic situation, unions as aware of the need to maintain the competitiveness of Swedish businesses. Thus, in an article published in the Dagensnyheter newspaper on November 12, they predict that the situation would be relatively bad again in 2013 and that their position shouldn’t conflict with the inflation level, which the...
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