With a majority of IT companies not joining collective bargaining, the labour market model with collective bargaining agreements that have helped deliver moderate pay increases and high minimum wages comes under pressure. As many as two thirds of firms operating in the IT sector do not sign collective agreements because they do not find them flexible or attractive enough. Tension is increasing in a labour market that has used industrial workers’ salaries since the 1990s as a benchmark for wage increases across the board. Manufacturing jobs have been disappearing, falling by about 22% to below 600,000 since 1996.
English: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-22/swedes-with-big-pay-dreams …
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