A strike of construction workers was called off, as negotiators from trade unions and employers organisations reached a deal on a new collective agreement. One of the last disputed points of the negotiations concerned primary contractors’ responsibility to ensure that subcontractors abide by the collective agreements. Employers argued the clause would make it impossible to hire foreign subcontractors, but unions referred to existing clauses in collective agreements in other Nordic countries. As a part of the deal, a working group will now be established to explore ways of writing primary contractor responsibility into collective agreements.
English: http://www.thelocal.se/jobs/?site=tlse&AID=47080
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.