Several LO unions are really upset that IF Metall and Kommunal have swung in when it comes to the agreement between the white-collar cartel PTK and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.
Tommy Wreeth wonders if LO's coordinations have any future, considering that a no in the LO board a few weeks later for some has become a yes.
- I do not understand how coordination will work in the future, he says.
One day you stick together, the next the message is completely different, according to the Transport Base.
IF Metall, he still praises the association for being open about faltering.
But the message from Kommunal came, according to Wreeth, like a bolt from the blue.
He recalls Tobias Baudin's (Kommunal's chairman) fierce criticism of LO's agreement secretary Torbjörn Johansson for having secretly negotiated las issues.
- And then he goes and does something even worse.
The "cosmetic" adjustments
The chairman brothers in Seko and Byggnads agree.
“One thing is for sure, it will have effects on LO and LO's role.
Exactly what the consequences will be for the cooperation within LO and LO's role in the future, we must now analyze ", writes Seko's chairman Valle Karlsson in a comment.
The adjustments that have been made since the no became a yes, he calls "cosmetic", and according to him they do not solve the problems in the Swedish labor market.
"It is no secret that it was strained before and I have a hard time seeing that this news would make that situation better," writes Byggnad's chairman Johan Lindholm in a press release.
Lindholm points out that Kommunal and IF Metall have approved an agreement that will also have consequences for industries other than their own.
- This is a disaster for our members, says Tommy Wreeth.