Saturday, April 9, 2016

Strikes and byggbud in wage negotiations – Swedish Radio

According to the union building chairman Johan Lindholm’s position locked between the parties.

– We sit and discuss the basis of our claims, and the more I can not say. We see the weekend come and these hours will probably be needed, it is heavy.

265 painters strike as of this morning. The reason is that the union believes that painters system chords wages are threatened by employers. But the Painters’ Union is also left at his wage demands of 3.2 percent, much higher than the industry agreement of 2.2 from last week as LO and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise has recommended should be the benchmark for others.

Building Chairman Johan Lindholm says that 3.2 percent is still also building wage demands.

– We have a number of claims and therein lies the 3.2 percent included.

Just like in paint conflict is the piecework system one of the contentious issues in the construction battle, where the parties are likely to have a medlarbud tomorrow Saturday.

the painters and building work closely in this bargaining round so the question is if the strike among painters is a premonition the ten times larger strike that could break out among construction workers on Tuesday.

– it is obvious that this is a plan, says Mats Åkerlind, negotiator for the employers in the Swedish Construction Federation.

Does this mean that there may be construction also strike on Tuesday?

– it depends on how the plan looks like. I can not speak about.

In the biting wind during the construction of luxury apartments on top of a new hotel in central Stockholm is the Painters pickets today. But behind the strike turnout seems like that.

– We’d rather work than be here, says painter apprentices Sami Pirinen and Alexandra Swedish.

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