LO must look for a new chief economist

Hartman announced his resignation, on Platform X, on Friday.

“Proud to have been able to take part in driving important issues from the perspective of union members. We will see and hear each other in the social debate!” Hartman wrote there.

Neither she nor her employer, LO, gives any real explanation as to why she quits. Hartman states that they agree to go their separate ways.

LO’s chancellor Elisabeth Brandt Ygeman says, to Today’s Arena :

— It is clear that there are reasons, but it is nothing that I intend to go into in detail.

Laura Hartman has been diligent in the debate about economic gaps in society and has, among other things, criticized the Riksbank for its way of fighting inflation.

“Unfortunately, I don’t see much in the current policy, either from the government or the Riksbank, that can break the trend towards increased gaps. And frankly, no clear ideas in such a direction from other political parties either, says Hartman The work.

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