The trade union Vision warns: The working environment in Kiruna municipality is unsustainable

Vision has 246 members in the Kiruna department.

The members work, among other things, as managers, administrators and with administration.

Now the union's chairman of the department, Helen Lundbäck, warns that the work situation is unsustainable for their members in a letter to the municipal board.

"Insecurity and insecurity lead to ill health"

In the letter, Vision writes, among other things:

“The many hands, feet and heads that have left and are about to leave the municipality due to an unsustainable work situation lead to an even more unsustainable work environment for those who remain.

Uncertainty and insecurity lead to ill health and do not contribute to the development and renewal of the municipality. ”

Municipal councilor Gunnar Selberg (C) calls the letter a political move and asks the union to concretize what is so bad.

- What is an unsustainable work environment?

If it's that serious, I need to know

it is.

They do not write any concrete things at all, he says.

Vision: Politicians get involved in the work of civil servants

The union also writes that it wants greater respect from politicians and emphasizes the importance of there being different rules of the game for politics and the service organization:

Gunnar Selberg (C) believes that he can understand this feeling among the employees because a lot has changed within the municipality.

According to Selberg, there has previously been a "waste culture" that has now led to a halt in purchases, at the same time as politicians have regained power.

- The civil servants want to be able to decide on their purchases themselves, they want to retain power and be able to control the municipality.

But politicians must govern and officials must enforce politicians' decisions.

Nothing else.

There has been a freedom and laxity in the past to, to some extent, be able to do what you want.

He continues:

- We can not go back and give back power to the officials.

If they call it clumsy, they can do it, says municipal councilor Gunnar Selberg (C).

You do not think that Vision refers to the events when you got involved in the debate about the landscaped beach in Kurravaara and the case where politicians drove over the officials and you got an exemption from beach protection?

- Politicians must not be too afraid, but I want to put my own affairs aside. I can rather feel that they are trying to use it against me and you almost get a little proud of that. You find nothing to criticize for the policy we stand for and then you go on personal aspects and chase me as a private person.