The Center Party has said no to giving LO influence over the new las legislation that will now be produced within the Government Offices. But despite the sometimes harsh tone, contacts continue to be made between the two players, Ekot can now reveal.
On Friday, LO’s top leadership and the Center Party’s Annie Lööf and Martin Ådahl met in a single meeting on the hot issue.
– We have a continuous dialogue with all decision-makers, including the center, we think it is important that everyone also gets to know how it actually works in the Swedish labor market, even for the LO unions’ members, says LO’s chairman Susanna Gideonsson.
Recently it was clear that the government and the co-operation parties, the Center Party and the Liberals, proceed with the agreement of the social partners, instead of the Toijer inquiry which was made within the framework of the January agreement.
This has raised questions about how the interests of employees should be taken into account in the new legislation because LO is outside the agreement, which, on the other hand, the salaried employees of PTK and the employers in the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise have agreed to.
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has stated that LO will have influence, but neither the Center Party nor the Liberals wanted to feel that. But despite that, the Center Party has now had an individual meeting with LO’s leadership.
Susanna Gideonsson, who participated together with the contract secretary Torbjörn Johansson, describes the meeting as an opportunity for LO to highlight the problems that the unions see in today’s labor market.
– In short, to explain what the development looks like, that today we have several 100,000 who go into precarious employment, who do not know when to work, how much they should work, where they should work and absolutely not what they get in salary. This is a development that we do not want to see and we just want to clarify what these mean both for an individual and for the labor market as a whole.
The Center Party’s labor market policy spokesman Martin Ådahl does not want to comment on exactly which party he talks to, but says that meetings have also been held with LO and various LO unions.
– We have met all parties and then it is because they want to tell about things and we want to listen to it. It is not to get in any way, we have a very clear order for the influence that will be over the processes around read and change that we have and it is based on the agreement that the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and PTK have and it is in connection with the process that the parties gain influence over it.
From LO’s side, a similar meeting with the Liberals is also planned soon.
Source: ICELAND NEWS