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2014-05-26 Painter and trade unionist Sharokh Zamani, imprisoned and harassed by the Iranian regime, who started a hunger strike in March and whom LO and member unions have supported through a petition on the LO website, has ended his hunger strike.

A Study of income trends for the power elite, 1950-2009 (Summary) 

A jailed union active member, painter Shahrokh Zamani, a member of the Founding Board of the Syndicate of Painters of Tehran and the Committee to Pursue the Establishment of Workers Organizations, has been on hunger strike since 8 March.

The report analyses three large infrastructure projects in Sweden where the purchasers have consciously and actively worked to hold down costs of infrastrucutre projects. Economic mobility is put before social considerations.  

Is free movement of services compatible with the Swedish Labour market model? In recent years the conflict between the EU’s economic freedoms – freedom of movement of goods, capital, services and persons protected by the Treaties – and basic trade union rights has become increasingly prominent in the European debate.  

In this report we have tried to give a qualified picture of the incidence of posting of foreign workers in the LO (Swedish Trade Union Confederation) affiliates' industries. The report shows that in construction posted workers make up almost 19 per cent of the total workforce and in forestry about 11 per cent. In other industries the percentage of posted workers is more modest. 

Report of the Social Democratic party and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation working Group for a strategy to introduce a social protocol in the EU Treaty. 

The fifth report in the series “Opinions on unions and work” deals with freedom and privileges at work as well as perceived class identity. 

The fourth report in the series ‘Opinions on unions and work’ presents employee views on trade union tasks, trade union influence and cooperation between LO and the Social Democratic Party. 

The quintessence of trade union strength is having a large number of members who want to be organised in trade unions. But almost equally important is that a large number of members also want to assume trade union assignments and in their capacity as elected union representatives conduct daily trade union work at workplaces. 

Views on trade union membership: In the middle of the 1990s almost 90 percent of workers were members of a trade union. Since then there has been a slow but steady decrease of the union membership.  

Views on wages and wage differences: A clear majority of all employees – 76 per cent - are of the opinion that the wage differences between different occupations are too big. 

The Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) has sent the attached letter to the Prime Minister of Turkey, Mr. R T Erdogan, protesting against the violence against the peaceful demonstrations in the country.

When LO representatives meet trade union activists and organisations from other countries, we often receive questions about the Swedish trade union-political cooperation. How does it work? What do you do? Could you give us some advice? 

This is the first in a series of reports from the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) on the theme 'Trade unions and the EU'. 

Trade union representatives and developments in the work environment - hundred years of history 

This manual describes how trade union - political cooperation works and might work in Sweden and in other countries as well as in the EU and at a global level. The manual also provides support for those who want to work with trade union - political cooperation in international development projects.  

The Swedish Model - the Importance of Collective Agreements in Sweden. The wage level, the right to insurance coverage and an occupational pension scheme are perhaps the most important examples of what is regulated in a Swedish collective agreement.