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International questions and climate issues, adopted at the Congress of LO, June 2016
LO's policy programme and decisions in the field of international activities and climate issues, adopted at the 28th STatutory Congress of LO, in June 2016
Area: International issuesCategory: Report -
Common position of the Swedish Trade Union Confederations on the future of the EU
The European Commission has presented a White Paper on the Future of Europe, the purpose of which is to promote discussion on the future shape and areas of EU cooperation. LO,TCO and Saco welcome the Commission’s initiative for inclusive and broad discussion on the shaping of future EU priorities and development.
Area: International issuesCategory: Policy paper -
Sweden’s gender equality barometer 2017 - Time, power and money
This is a summary of LO’s gender equality report of 2017 “Sweden’s gender equality barometer – Time, power and money”. A report that highlights conditions of work and family life from a class and gender perspective. The aim is to describe the material conditions and power resources that underlie the scope of action available to women and men in different social groups. Or as expressed in the Swedish government’s gender equality policy objectives; the power to shape society and your own life.
Area: Welfare issuesCategory: Report -
EU needs to be changed!
We cannot accept an EU where we compete with wages and working conditions. Instead, we must fight to ensure that everyone who works in Sweden is treated equally. This is why we demand that a social progress protocol be incorporated in the EU treaties. A social progress protocol that strengthens member states’ control over the labour market. A social progress protocol that guarantees that Swedish wages and working conditions will apply to all who work in Sweden.
Area: Collective agreementCategory: Policy paper -
The Nordic Model for Dummies
The Nordic Model for Dummies is based on the NordMod2030 research project, undertaken by the Fafo Institute for Labour and Science Research and a Nordic research team for SAMAK and Foundation for European Progressive Studies FEPS. SAMAK is the Nordic Labour Movement Organisation, with 5 million members from social democratic parties and trade union organisations in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. You will find more on NordMod2030 and SAMAK at www.samak.info. Here you will also find the Sørmarka Declaration “We Build the Nordics”, a social democratic and trade union political roadmap for the future Nordics.
Area: Labour marketCategory: Report -
Full employment and a wage policy of solidarity, report adopted at the 2016 LO Congress
Area: EconomyCategory: Report -
Presentation: LO, The Swedish Trade Union Confederation
It all began with a vow: “We do solemnly swear that we will never under any circumstances work for lower wages or under worse conditions than what we now promise one another. We make this vow, in the secure knowledge that if we all are true to our pledge the employer will be forced to meet our demands.”
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Inequality is bad for business - a progressive agenda for equality
Allowing income gaps to grow has been detrimental to economic stability in many countries and produced a breeding ground for populism and protectionism. This is a warning bell for all of us who defend openness, international trade and a sound market economy. Inequality is bad for business and sooner or later it leads to mistrust and political upheaval. This is the message of a new LO report presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in January 2017.
Area: EconomyCategory: Report -
Beyond dreams and belief
Based on a number of real-life cases the report illustrates some of the most important mechanisms that contribute to dirty competition , that is competition with lower wages and worse working conditions, in the Swedish labour market. The circumstances and in many cases tragic human destinies described in the report are not unique to Sweden. Throughout Europe, in the EU internal market, various methods of exploiting the differences in pay and terms of employment have emerged.
Area: Collective agreementCategory: Report -
The model that climbed out the window - on globalisation and the future of the Swedish model (Summary)
Over time, the expression “the Swedish model” has come to be used to refer to almost everything that may be seen as having distinctive Swedish characteristics. But countries’ different models have historical and cultural roots. People in other countries as a rule prefer “their” model.
Area: Collective agreementCategory: Report -
We like change – A Progressive Agenda for Future Jobs
Something new is taking place in labour markets around the world. At least since the end of the 1990s, both low-skill and high-skill jobs are increasing, while middle-skill jobs are decreasing. This is called job polarisation and means that we are moving towards an hourglass-shaped labour market.
Area: EconomyCategory: Report -
LO's Key European Issues 2014-2019 - Full employment, democracy and transparency: 40 proposals for a better EU
LO's vision is to create an EU that takes the lead in pursuing an economic policy of full employment and sustainable development. For a development that guarantees regulation on the labour market as well as democracy and transparency.
Area: International issuesCategory: Report -
Economic Outlook, Autumn 2014 (Summary)
More than six years have passed since the acute financial crash in autumn 2008. The international economy is still coloured by the repercussions of the crisis. Central banks have put in place major monetary policy stimulation measures. In the euro area an ill-designed austerity policy has been implemented that has held back economic recovery and counteracted the more active monetary policy.
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Continued solidarity with trade unionist Shahrokh Zamani
2014-05-26 Painter and trade unionist Sharokh Zamani, imprisoned and harassed by the Iranian regime, who started a hunger strike in March and whom LO and member unions have supported through a petition on the LO website, has ended his hunger strike.
Area: International issuesCategory: Letter of protest -
The Power Elite - Always More, Never Enough
A Study of income trends for the power elite, 1950-2009 (Summary)
Area: EconomyCategory: Report -
LO and The Swedish Painters' Union urge release of Shahrokh Zamani
A jailed union active member, painter Shahrokh Zamani, a member of the Founding Board of the Syndicate of Painters of Tehran and the Committee to Pursue the Establishment of Workers Organizations, has been on hunger strike since 8 March.
Area: International issuesCategory: -
When labour costs squeeze the price - an analysis of public sector investments in infrastructure
The report analyses three large infrastructure projects in Sweden where the purchasers have consciously and actively worked to hold down costs of infrastrucutre projects. Economic mobility is put before social considerations.
Area:Category: Report -
Democracy as an obstacle for free movement within the EU
Is free movement of services compatible with the Swedish Labour market model? In recent years the conflict between the EU’s economic freedoms – freedom of movement of goods, capital, services and persons protected by the Treaties – and basic trade union rights has become increasingly prominent in the European debate.
Area:Category: Report -
Guest in reality - About posted workers in practice
In this report we have tried to give a qualified picture of the incidence of posting of foreign workers in the LO (Swedish Trade Union Confederation) affiliates' industries. The report shows that in construction posted workers make up almost 19 per cent of the total workforce and in forestry about 11 per cent. In other industries the percentage of posted workers is more modest.
Area:Category: Report -
For a Social Europe - introduce a social protocol in the EU Treaty
Report of the Social Democratic party and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation working Group for a strategy to introduce a social protocol in the EU Treaty.
Area:Category: Report