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The trade unions say no to the mediators’ first wage offer in the industrial negotiations.
The next bid is expected in a week.
“The wage increases must be significantly higher and the minimum wages in the agreements must be increased more,” says the Union’s chairman Martin Linder in a first written statement.
The five unions in the industry reject the first proposal for a new wage agreement, report Sweden’s Radio Echo.
The employer side, on the other hand, has, as expected, agreed.
The offer presented by the mediators contained salary increases of 6.5 percent over a 2-year contract period.
The union believes that the proposed level of wage increases is too low.
“We cannot accept this offer and major changes are required for us to sign an agreement. The wage increases must be significantly higher and the minimum wages in the agreements must be increased more,” says Union chairman Martin Linder in a first written statement to TT.
In its original demand, the union demanded 4.4 percent in a one-year contract.
The agreement that the industrial unions finally arrive at usually sets the so-called wage mark, which the entire labor market then conforms to.