Comments 2010

Will Lex Laval work?: On 9 September the Swedish Building Workers' Union (Byggnads) took industrial action against a Lithuanian company building a school in Höllviken in Southern Sweden. The union demanded the company paid its Lithuanian workers according Swedish salary agreements. Are we heading towards a new Laval ruling?
National pride gave Icelanders tunnel-vision: Icelanders help each other out in bad times. But when it comes to a man-made crisis they don't really know how to act.
Hungry Eyes for Scandinavian Baby Buggies: As the first glimpses of spring appear in Copenhagen, rows of baby buggies stand neatly in line in front of fashionable bars. The children doze away at the comforting sounds of laughter from their parents who enjoy themselves inside.
The Laval case, act III – Sweden's Labour Court rules union must pay high damages: The Labour Court judgment is important in principle and very controversial. For the first time in EU history a trade union is made to pay damages after industrial action contrary to EU-law.

"We are very clear on the fact that you cannot overcome the crisis through cuts alone."

Trine Lise Sundnes, workers' representative at the ILO