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	Swedish Trade Union Confederation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Swedish Trade Union Confederation (Swedish: Landsorganisationen i Sverige, literally "Land Organisation in Sweden"), commonly referred to as LO, is an umbrella organisation for sixteen Swedish trade unions that organise "blue collar" workers.
		The member unions are fully independent, with the role of the Confederation limited to the co-ordination of wage bargaining, international activities, trade union education and other areas.
		While its Danish sister organisation, the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions, cut its formal ties to the country's Social Democratic party in 1995, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation maintains a strong cooperation with the Social Democrats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swedish_Trade_Union_Confederation (528 words)

	Sweden LABOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In 2002, about 80% of Swedish wage earners are members of trade unions, and within certain industrial branches the percentage is even higher.
		The first unions in Sweden were organized in the 1870s, but for a long time the movement remained numerically weak relative to the rest of industrialized Europe.
		At the end of 1992, however, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, which is closely allied to the Social Democratic Party, had 2.23 million members and was thus the largest organization of any kind in Sweden.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Europe/Sweden-LABOR.html (442 words)

	Sweden’s Assault on Labor
		Swedish unions boast an average 81 percent membership rate, and hold a number of impressive rights in and out of the workplace.
		The give-and-take between unions, employers and the government is evident in the broad economic principles, drawn up by two LO economists, that the country followed from the late 1950s until the 1970s.
		Swedish politics has been based on these boards." The fear, Viklund says, is that Sweden will shift to an "American-style" legislative lobbying system, in which those able to mount the best publicity campaign and exert the most pressure on government will win.
	multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/issues/1992a/05/mm0592_10.htm.save (3017 words)

	Mellan två fonder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mellan tvÂ fonder deals with the emergence of the idea of a Swedish model and the role of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) in the Swedish experience of constituting a model society.
		The victor of the labour movement brought expectations and new claims for social change ("increased eqyuality", "more social justice") among trade union members and Social Democratic party members and was therefore an important contribution to the political radicalisation in the 1960s.
		The Social Democrats and the LO lost their established power over language and symbols and concepts like justice and freedom was recharged with new content when the employers rallied in the 4 October movement under blue and yellow flags to protest against the employees' fund proposal.
	www.iue.it /Personal/Strath/bibliography/abstracts/mfonder.htm (363 words)

	Sif - International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		LO - The Swedish Trade Union Confederation – is the central organisation for 16 trade unions that organise blue-collar workers in the private, municipal and state sectors.
		TCO - The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees - is the central organisation for whitecollar workers.
		SACO - The Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations - is primarily the central organisation for academically-qualified whitecollar workers.
	www.sif.se /templates/Page1____287.aspx (536 words)

	Trade unions across Europe
		Union of Autonomous Trade Unions of Croatia (SSSH): 22 trade unions and 21 branch offices with a total membership of 400,000.
		Established in 1941 and claims to be the largest Cypriot trade union federation, although SEK is roughly of equal size.
		The union claims that its membership consists of 46% women, with 25% of all members being under the age of 30.
	www.fedee.com /tradeunions.html (1972 words)

	Yonatan Reshef: Sweden
		Saltsjobaden Agreement between the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, the L.O., and the Swedish Employers' Confederation, the S.A.F. This accord signified a turning point to a tumultuous relationship between labour and capital that had been marred by forty years of severe industrial strife.
		In 1951, economists Gosta Rehn and Rudolf Meidner of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (L.O.) responded by devising the 'Swedish model' to simultaneously achieve full-employment, moderate inflation, decreased wage inequality, and increased economic growth.
		For this reason, the 'Swedish model' was eventually endorsed in 1955 by both wings of the labour movement, the S.A.P. and the L.O., and implemented in a coordinated effort after 1956.
	www.bus.ualberta.ca /yreshef/orga417/sweden.htm (2518 words)

	EIRO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Trade union density in Sweden started to decline from the mid-1980s onwards but has since recovered to its former level of 83% in early 1997, according to a recently published report.
		Both trade unions and the Ministry of Labour are now investigating the facts, and theMunicipal Workers' Unionis considering calling for the reintroduction of the abolished provisions on minimum wages for workers under 18 years of age in central sectoral collective agreements.
		The Government now urges employers and trade unions to negotiate in order to ensure that employees are no worse off as a result of the modifications of the Sick Pay Act.
	www.eiro.eurofound.ie /organisations/organisation_letter_6850_1997.html (480 words)

	Larena
		SACO is a confederation of 26 independent associations that together have over half a million members, all of whom are academics or graduate professionals with a university or college degree.
		The Swedish National Agency for Education is the central administrative authority for the Swedish public school system for children, young people and adults, as well as for preschool activities and child care for school children.
		Lärarförbundet is the largest teachers’ and headteachers’ union and the fourth largest union in Sweden, with over 200 000 members in all categories of schools, from early childhood to higher education and university.
	www.larena.se /english_links.shtml (1016 words)

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		In Sweden, the union appointed regional safety representatives (RSR) are such "translators"4 The RSRs support SWEM and an active OHS dialogue in the small firms.
		Unions within the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO, the "blue collar workers") have the longest and strongest tradition with some 1 500 RSRs (in 2003, equalling 257 full-time).
		The Transport workers´ union have full-time RSRs (in co-operation with and reimbursed by the employers).
	www.arbo.nl /news/conference_docs/proceedings/GBIII/sessie5/Frick.doc (2507 words)

	Labour Market Dialogue - Swedish enterprise and trade unions important in development cooperation
		His idea was that Swedish enterprises should use the goodwill that Swedish development cooperation has created around the world since the 1960s.
		The proposed overall objective for Swedish development cooperation is to help creating conditions that will enable the poor to improve their lives.
		In the introduction to the seminar, Göran Tunhammar, Director General Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, stated the he would not go as far as saying “trade, not aid”, but rather “much more trade and relevant aid”.
	www.lmd.se /index.php?newsId=2 (446 words)

	SULF - In English
		SULF, is a member of the Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations (SACO), whose members are professionals with university or college education.
		The Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) which is the largest, caters mainly for blue-collar workers.
		The third confederation is the Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations SACO whose members are professionals with university or college education.
	www.sulf.se /templates/printPage.aspx?id=108 (417 words)

	LO focuses on fighting ethnic discrimination
		The Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) decided in June 2001 to concentrate its opinion-forming and educational work on fighting ethnic segregation and discrimination in working life.
		In June 2001, the board of the blue-collar Swedish Trade Union Confederation (Landsorganisationen, LO) approved an "LO platform to strengthen and increase the awareness of all human beings' equal value and equal rights and militate against segregation and discrimination".
		One goal for the confederation's integration work in 2001 is therefore to develop its own statistical material and to work for better national and regional statistics in this area.
	www.eiro.eurofound.ie /2001/07/inbrief/SE0107107N.html (471 words)

	Arbetsmiljöupplysningen - Sveriges samlade kunskap om arbetsliv och hälsa
		Lärarförbundet, The Swedish teachers’ union, is the largest teachers’ and headteachers’ union and the fourth largest union in Sweden, with over 200 000 members in all categories of schools, from early childhood to higher education and university.
		PTK is a negotiating cartel for 27 salaried employees´ unions that have opted for joint action to boost their strength in collective bargaining and implementation of agreements in the private sector.
		SACO, The Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations, is a confederation of 25 independent associations that together have over half a million members, all of whom are academics or graduate professionals with a university or college degree.
	www.arbetsmiljoupplysningen.se /AFATemplates/InfoBoxList.aspx?id=7282 (1409 words)

	Focus ALFA - ABF Kronoberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wage bargaining, labour market insurance schemes, international activities, trade union education, children's and young people's education, gender equality and social security are some of the areas LO is responsible co-ordinating for.
		An important task for LO is to protect the trade union movement's interests in relation to the Goverment, the authorities and other organisations.
		The results will be of great importance and interest to the LO union members and show more about how to deal with the situation among their dyslexic members.
	www.focusalfa.se /html/lo.html (327 words)

	NGO Press Conference - 19 March 2002
		While civil society was included as a matter of ritual in financing for development negotiations, their views were not actually reflected in the final decisions.
		Tennassee said the Confederation had made a number of demands, including that the dialogue with multilateral institutions be redefined through negotiations with labour and civil society partners.
		Trade unions as partners were often harassed, and their rights not respected, so she had attempted to make the case that trade union rights were also human rights.
	www.un.org /ffd/pressconf/19m.htm (520 words)

	In english
		The Swedish Municipal Workers’ Union - Kommunal, Sweden’s largest trade union, has about 570,000 members whose work includes care of the elderly, child care, health care, bus services, roads, parks, refuse collection and agriculture.We are in the local authority sector, that is county councils, municipalities, municipal companies, co-operatives, private companies and the Church of Sweden.
		In 2002 the Swedish Municipal Workers’ Union merged with the
		Confederation, one of the three central trade union federations in
	www.kommunal.se /index.cfm?n=1231 (125 words)

	Electricians' dispute resolved
		The settlement followed industrial action by the Swedish Electricians' Union (SEF) and was enabled by the intervention of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO).
		The LO intervention allowed the stress issue to be referred to a higher level and on 26 June the mediators invited SEF and EIO to final talks, which led to the conclusion of a new collective agreement on 30 June.
		Similarly, in the electricians' dispute, trade unions representing building workers and painters gave notice of sympathy action, but the dispute was resolved before this could occur.
	www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int /2003/08/inbrief/se0308101n.html (563 words)

	EIRO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Soon after the bill was presented, the Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations (SACO) launched a supplementary unemployment insurance scheme for its members, which will cover their real loss of income in the event of unemployment.
		In 1999, the membership of trade unions representing university graduates affiliated to the SACO confederation increased by 3.6% in 1999.
		The white-collar workers' unions affiliated to TCO also registered a slight rise (though a drop in active members), while the blue-collar unions affiliated to LO lost about 1.3% of their membership.
	www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int /organisations/organisation_letter_6584_2000.html (591 words)

	Utskrift från Lärarförbundets webbplats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The LO (the Swedish Trade Union Confederation) and SACO (the Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations) are two other trade union confederations.
		Another teachers’ union, the SFHL (Swedish Union of Folk High School Teachers) is affiliated to the TCO and has approximately 2 600 members.
		Other SACO-affiliated teachers’ unions are SULF (the Swedish Association of University Teachers) and Skolledarna (the Swedish Association of Headteachers and Principals).
	www.lararforbundet.se /web/ws.nsf/DocumentsToPrint/003DA413 (238 words)

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		The Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) LO is the central organisation for 16 affiliates, which organise workers within both the private, and the public sectors.
		Wage bargaining, labour market insurance schemes, international activities, trade union education, children’s and young people’s education, equality of the sexes and social security are some of the areas for which LO is responsible for co-ordinating.
		The Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations — SACO Is a confederation of 26 independent associations that together have over half a million members, all of whom are academics or graduate professionals with a university or college degree.
	www.surrey.ac.uk /politics/cse/daphne-sweden-report-June04.doc (6339 words)

	Untitled Document
		This is the summary of the application which we sent to the Swedish branch of the European Social Fund in the spring of 2002.
		TCO was represented at the luncheon by Inger Efraimsson, the Chairperson of the union for civil servants and clerical staff (SKTF).
		The trade union of academic employees in the Church
	www.normgivande.nu /ArticlePages/200210/14/20021014170748_Normgivande747/20021014170748_Normgivande747.dbp.asp (2224 words)

	GB.271/17A1 - Governing Body
		Bolin joined the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) in 1954 as a legal adviser and became in 1962 its Director for International Affairs.
		Bolin was one of the architects of modern Swedish labour law in such areas as workers' participation, collective bargaining rights for public servants and leave with pay.
		Bolin was a member of the Swedish delegation to the United Nations General Assembly and other United Nations bodies, and chaired the Industrial Development Board (1966-67).
	www.ilo.org /public/english/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb271/gb-17a1.htm (423 words)

	Untitled Document
		Due to the framing of the existing labour legislation, it also happens that the national union is considered as part of a dispute concerning the rights of an individual member of the union.
		This means that, after decision in there own trade union organisation, about 3,5 million LO and TCO members can get support in legal affairs related to their work.
		The department also handles criminal cases where a member of the union is persecuted for a crime he or she is suspected of having committed in connection with his or her work.
	www.fackjuridik.com /engelska.html (827 words)

	:: Pipeline :: Episode 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Despite the fact that more and more young people use the unions' hotline numbers during their summer jobs, the number of young people actually joining the union is not increasing at the same rate.
		Stephanie joined the union 3 years ago, but it wasn’t until she experienced trouble at work that she decided to become a union representative.
		Stephanie tells us what being involved in the union can be like and why she thinks that it is important to try and influence one's own situation through a union.
	www.ur.se /pipeline/episode8.htm (629 words)

	LO-TCO Biståndsnämnd: About us
		The LO-TCO Secretariat of International Trade Union Development Co-operation was founded by its two members: the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (Landsorganisationen - LO) and the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (Tjänstemännens centralorganisation - TCO).
		Where people are union members, demand their rights and reasonable working conditions, existing power structures and society as a whole can be changed.
		Collective agreements are one of the best mechanisms for combating poverty, and the struggle to negotiate and defend collective agreements is a permanent feature of trade union work — here in Sweden as in other countries throughout the world.
	www.lotcobistand.org /en (210 words)

	Certification Times: Union workers get wired
		The Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) and the Computer Society of Sweden (Dataforeningen) have signed an agreement which will give all 1.9 million members of the LO the opportunity to get ECDL certified.
		LO is responsible for co-ordinating a wide range of matters for its members, including wage bargaining, labour market insurance schemes, international activities, trade union education, education for children and young people, equality of the sexes and social security.
		Since its launch in August of that year, the Swedish ECDL organisation has achieved significant success, and Sweden boasts one of the highest numbers of candidates for all countries participating in the programme.
	times.ecdl.com /e_article000164471.cfm?x=b11,0,w (458 words)

	Application of International Labour Standards (LibSynd)
		The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions, the Salaried Employees and Civil Servants Confederation and the Danish Federation of Professionals Associations
		The Union of Autonomous Trade Unions of Croatia (UATUC)
		The All Poland Trade Union Alliance (OPZZ), the Warsaw Trade Union of Self-Government Employees (WZZPS) and the trade union "Sprawiedliwosc" in the Auxiliary Section of the Prime Minister's Chancellery
	webfusion.ilo.org /public/db/standards/normes/libsynd/getParaLinkReport.cfm?hdroff=1&REP=327 (2979 words)

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