Saltsjöbaden Agreement
Labour market-political agreement | |
Signed | 20 December 1938 |
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Location | Saltsjöbaden, Sweden |
Original signatories |
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Language | Swedish |
The Saltsjöbad Agreement (
In 2007, the LO, the Council for Negotiation and Co-operation (sv. Privattjänstemannakartellen, PTK) and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (a successor organisation to the Swedish Employers Association) began negotiations towards a new agreement at the initiative of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.[1][2] The negotiations, however, were suspended in March 2009.[5][6]
History
Since the
To implement the Saltsjöbaden Agreement the LO had to change their statutes. The new statutes included authorizing the secretariat to suspend conflict aid to a member union who refuses to approve the secretariat's proposals for settlement. The secretariat may also prohibit a strike if it covers more than three percent of the members of a member union, or if it is in danger of becoming so large through lockout. Member unions of the LO were also required to have a provision in their statutes empowering the board of the confederation to decide on issues of contract and industrial action, even against members expressed desire.[7]
Reception to the treaty was mixed. LO-affiliated Swedish Transport Workers' Union (sv. Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet) commented that "in fear of death, one commits suicide" and objected especially to the fourth chapter, which governs industrial action by unions, as "repugnant".[8]
The Saltsjöbaden Agreement launched an era of consensus and cooperation in the Swedish labour market, the so-called "saltsjöbadsandan" (Saltsjöbaden spirit), which characterized labour policy in Sweden at least until the late 1960s, when the LKAB conflict marked the start of a period of confrontation and decreasing consensus. In the early 1980s, the parties again sought consensus, which culminated in the signing of the Utvecklingsavtalet (Development Agreement) between the LO, SAF and PTK.[2]
As Nils Elvander has called attention to, the Industriavtalet (Industry Agreement) of 1997 between trade unions and employers' associations in manufacturing industry reminds in many respects of the Saltsjöbaden Agreement and could be labeled a follow-up of our days.[9] By that, the traditional Swedish model of industrial relations, containing a prominent role of collective agreements (regulation by the labour market parties themselves) and a climate of co-operation, was restored after a period of confrontation, particularly in the 1970s.[10] [11]
See also
References
- ^ a b Jacobsson, Göran (22 January 2008). "Förhandlingsansvariga pratar redan". LO-Tidningen (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 10 August 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
- ^ a b c d Reinhold, Fahlbeck. "Saltsjöbadsavtalet". Nationalencyklopedin. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
- ^ Schön, Lennart. "Industrisamhällets höjdpunkt 1930-1975". En modern svensk ekonomisk historia: tillväxt och omvandling under två sekel. Stockholm: SNS Förlag. p. 347. 978-91-85355-87-7.
Det blev normbildande för den svenska arbetsmarknaden att arbetsmarknadens parter skulle sluta avtal utan inblandning av regeringen.
- ^ "Nu gällande huvudavtal". LO. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- Svenskt Näringsliv. Archived from the originalon 12 June 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
- e24.se(in Swedish). Retrieved 17 December 2009.
- ^ Lagerström, Sven (1996). "Den svenska socialismens historia". Syndikalismen. Stockholm: Federativs Förlag. p. 50. 91-86474-19-7.
- ^ Håkansson, Mattias (December 2007). "Dags för ett nytt Saltsjöbadsavtal?" (in Swedish). Transportarbetaren. Archived from the original on 5 June 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
- ^ Elvander, Nils (2002) "Saltsjöbadsavtalet och Industriavtalet - en jämförelse", Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv, vol 8, pp. 191-194; Elvander, Nils (2003) "Two Labour Market Regimes in Sweden. A Comparison Between the Saltsjöbaden Agreement of 1938 and the Industrial Agreement of 1997", Industrielle Beziehungen, Vol 10 no 1, pp. 146-159
- ISBN 978-3-03911-410-8
- ^ Anders Kjellberg (2017) ”Self-regulation versus State Regulation in Swedish Industrial Relations” In Mia Rönnmar and Jenny Julén Votinius (eds.) Festskrift till Ann Numhauser-Henning. Lund: Juristförlaget i Lund 2017, pp. 357-383
External links
- Archive text of the Saltsjöbaden Agreement at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-07-27) (in Swedish)