Municipal: Employers are pushing employees to not participate in conflict

These are extended overtime, extra-time, new hire and hire blocks, which will take effect on the morning of June 24.

The reason is, according to Municipal, that private healthcare companies mapped employees’ trade union membership and tried to push them from participating in the conflict.

« This is nothing more than an attack on the Swedish model. When employers map trade union membership and try to round the right of strike, then they use the labor market’s ugliest trick, » said Municipal contract secretary Johan Ingelskog in a press release.

Antje dedering, Healthcare officers’ union director, denies that it is a survey.

« The fact that our member companies ask who intends to participate in the conflict is primarily about securing the safety of patients and the elderly, in the alternative of practicalities such as payroll payments, » she says according to a press release.

Already last week, June 3, notified the LO union of strike among employees in private healthcare and care as well as elderly care. About 50,000 people work in the relevant contract areas, and the workplaces concerned include health centers, hospitals and elderly homes.

The battle issue is overtime compensation, where, according to the municipalities, healthcare companies opposed that part -time employees should receive the same compensation for overtime as full -time employees.

A majority of Those who work at private elderly care companies are part -time employees.

The healthcare providers call the union’s notified conflict measures regrettable and irresponsible.

« We have offered the Municipality of the same conditions that apply in the other labor market, but they want more, » says Antje Dedering according to the press release.