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26th June 2009, 20:32
Last week, around 40 workers at the company Lagena went on a wildcat strike in protest of proposed kicking om 33 workers, with the company planing to re-hire them through another company, with the intention to keep the workers down.
After several weeks of protest outside of the "LO-borgen" (the headquarter of the swedish dominant union) they decided to strike. A majority of the workers with permanent employment decided to not go to work, while the police and company used people hired thru other companys to keep the production down.
When the strike was happening, workers of another big company near - Coca-cola - helped by parking their cars in the way of the trucks from and to Lagena. Also, all over Sweden, people we're handing out leaflets outside "Systembolaget" (the only place where you can buy stronger alcohol in Sweden, and owner of Lagena, a state monopoly) and collected several thousands of SEK (8 SEK = 1 Dollar). Also sent on the last day on the strike, the workers received twenty-something pizzas and a couple of cakes.
The strike begun monday, and ended on friday when it was taken to court, and if they had not went back to work, they could all be sacked.
After the strike ended, the Lagena-workers are facing 200 000 Sek (that's like 20 000 dollars) in fines.
Just an interesting little story, wildcat strikes are very uncommon in Sweden, even in these days. Hopefully, they'll get to keep their jobs and enough money gets collected to pay their fines.
If you wonder anything, i'll try to answer as well as i can.
After several weeks of protest outside of the "LO-borgen" (the headquarter of the swedish dominant union) they decided to strike. A majority of the workers with permanent employment decided to not go to work, while the police and company used people hired thru other companys to keep the production down.
When the strike was happening, workers of another big company near - Coca-cola - helped by parking their cars in the way of the trucks from and to Lagena. Also, all over Sweden, people we're handing out leaflets outside "Systembolaget" (the only place where you can buy stronger alcohol in Sweden, and owner of Lagena, a state monopoly) and collected several thousands of SEK (8 SEK = 1 Dollar). Also sent on the last day on the strike, the workers received twenty-something pizzas and a couple of cakes.
The strike begun monday, and ended on friday when it was taken to court, and if they had not went back to work, they could all be sacked.
After the strike ended, the Lagena-workers are facing 200 000 Sek (that's like 20 000 dollars) in fines.
Just an interesting little story, wildcat strikes are very uncommon in Sweden, even in these days. Hopefully, they'll get to keep their jobs and enough money gets collected to pay their fines.
If you wonder anything, i'll try to answer as well as i can.