This basic agreement had been negotiated in 1938 at Saltsjöbaden, a village on the coast near Stockholm between the Swedish employers’ confederation and the LO confederation. It is part of a particular period in Swedish history in the context of repeated social disputes in the 30’s in the aftermath of the 1929 crisis. In 1931, the army even fired on the strikers of a steel works killing several in Aden. The social-democrats had come to power in 1932, without any evident improvement of the situation, and envisioned regulation of the labor market to put an end to the trouble. This had pushed to the negotiating table employers who wanted an end to social conflicts without having their hands tied by a stringent legal framework, and the powerful unions, which wanted to obtain wage increases to offset the consequences of the crisis while keeping their master cards through the absence of the government at the negotiating table.
ad come to power in 1932, without any evident improvement of the situation, and envisioned regulation of the labor market to put an end to the trouble. This had pushed to the negotiating table employers who wanted an end to social conflicts without having their hands tied by a stringent legal framework, and the powerful unions, which wanted to obtain wage increases to offset the consequences of the crisis while keeping their master cards through the absence of the government at the negotiating
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