Even though workers are usually referred to in labor law as the weaker party, they are far from helpless. When workers come…
I often find myself in grim negotiations where the employer has already decided to fire workers because they’ve suffered workplace injuries or…
Syndicalism has emerged from class struggle. It is an international trade union movement that first arose in the 1870s in Spain, the…
Translated article from the Swedish publication Magasinet Konkret. Organizing is – or should be – the core business of every labor union.…
In Sweden, we have become accustomed to the employer side – not workers – pushing the frontline forward. The ability of unions…
A labor union can either invest time, effort and resources into growing or shrink and disappear. Below, Rasmus Hästbacka of the Swedish SAC discusses…
According to the latest statistics, 69 percent of Sweden’s wage earners are unionized. This can be compared with the peak of 86…
In Sweden, as in many other countries, employers are attacking the collective agreements (or the labor contracts, as it’s called in North…
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