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The welfare state is a less stable basis than we often assume. Those middle-aged pay today for the care they will receive when they get old. This is a long-term commitment. If the quality is poor or t...

In spite of decades of work, politicians, trade unions, employers and citizens have not managed to eliminate the prevailing inequality in society. LO now, in its capacity as trade union organisation, ...

In its annual report, the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) has found the legislation that Sweden adopted as a result of the EU Court of Justice’s ...

Lately we have once again witnessed how workers are exploited under almost slavish conditions in the Swedish labour market. This time focus is on Cameroon guest workers who came to Sweden to afforest ...

In mid-January, the LO Executive Council submitted its action plan for restrictions of profits in the welfare system. The model is based on a row of measures which jointly aim at securing our welfare ...

LO demands in the 2013 round of wage negotiations and a new wage model The LO Executive Council decided, in mid-October, to support coordinated negotiations among the LO national unions. The LO Gen...

The Council of Nordic Trade Unions, NFS, held its congress in Ålesund, Norway, on 17-19 September. The special theme of the congress was sustainable working life – from the economic, social and ecolo...

LO concurs in the strong protest submitted by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to the Turkish Government regarding the mass detention of 71 trade union activists in the last few day...

Blue-collar workers do not only earn less than white-collar workers but they do also have fewer possibilities to plan and exert influence on their work tasks. Besides, they have considerably fewer ben...

The Swedish collective agreement model is based on strong and independent social partners. The regulation of wages and employment conditions through collective agreements develops in the course of neg...

“You have to call a spade a spade. We have mass unemployment in Sweden. Our positive work first principle has been replaced by a negative one. It is not based on people’s will to work, it is based on...

Sweden must ratify ILO Convention No. 94, thus making it clear that conditions concerning Swedish collective agreements can be imposed in public procurement. In that way public procurement can contrib...

The Swedish Trade Union Confederation will continue its trade union-political cooperation with the Social Democratic Party. This was resolved by the Swedish Trade Union Confederation Congress today. ...

Today (Sunday 27 May) unanimous Congress elected Torbjörn Johansson, originally from the Swedish Building Workers' Union, as new Negotiating Secretary of LO Sweden.

The Swedish Trade Union Confederation is to mould public opinion in support of the right to minimum pay levels and oppose government wage policy. This was what Congress resolved after dealing with mot...

Tobias Baudin from the Municipal Workers’ Union and Ingela Edlund from SEKO (Union for Service and Communication Employees) were today (Saturday 26 May) elected by a unanimous Congress as first and se...

At the Swedish Trade Union Confederation Congress seven trade union leaders from seven European countries present their image of Europe in crisis in a new publication. What are the challenges ahead of...

The Swedish Trade Union Confederation supports the Palestinian trade union movement’s calls to boycott Israeli goods from occupied territories. However, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation does not ...

The LO Sweden Congress calls for unemployment insurance to be improved and strengthened. Unemployment insurance benefit is to be 80 per cent of wages and the ceiling for benefit is to be raised and ad...

Unemployment policy with many educational and preparatory features has a strengthening effect on individuals that have access to it. It provides a sound basis that enables individuals to fully partici...