Kullander, Mats

Sweden has a tradition of high trade union density rates, but the share of Swedish workers who are members of a trade union has dropped in the last decade from 80% to 70%. This might seem high from a global perspective, but Sweden is also one of the countries where unionisation is declining most rapidly.

The three peak-level Swedish trade union organisations have together launched Union to Union, an overseas aid organisation dedicated to cooperating with and supporting trade union organisations globally.

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) was both directly and indirectly involved in several labour disputes in May and June 2015.

The Swedish government has announced plans to reform the parental leave system, proposing to introduce a third 'daddy month'.

A number of practices indirectly favour the recruitment of men over women onto company boards of directors in Finland.

Employer and worker representatives have expressed concern that Finnish government plans to cut subsidies for the rehabilitation of people back into working life will result in greater expense in sickness absence and disability pensions.

A proposal from the Confederation of Finnish Industries argues for 100 additional annual working hours per employee, to boost productivity and competitiveness. Trade unions have strongly criticised the proposal.

There has been heated debate in the transport sector regarding the common market's impact on Swedish wages and working conditions. A new law tries to deal with some of the most obvious violations of the rules.

The government is taking action against what it considers to be the overuse of temporary employment. The Swedish Government is proposing stricter measures against the abuse of temporary employment (text in Swedish). The new regulation woul...

In mid-June, the social partners reached an agreement on a general pay raise for next year. The moderate raise of €16 or 0.43% per month will cover some 90% of all workers The national wage agreement signed by trade unions confederati...