On 31 March, an agreement was reached in extremis by the five unions that form part of the Facken Inom Industri grouping and the employer groups in the industry sector. Unusually the agreement will last three years and provides for a 6.5% pay rise, meaning the industry sector can be a reference point for negotiations set to take place in other sectors.
Tough negotiations. The deal was struck in a race against the clock, with the preceding agreement set to expire that very evening, raising fears of potential strike action. Facken Inom Industri (the organisation that brings together metalworkers’ union IF Metall, food workers’ union Livs, paper and forestry workers’ union GS-Facket, private sector union Unionen and engineers’ union Sveriges Ingenjörer) and the employer groupings in the sector (Teknikföretagen, Grafiska, IKEM, SLA, TMF, TEKO and
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