Engineers are preparing for conflict with ALMEGA – Swedish Dagbladet

Ulf Bengtsson, president of the Swedish Engineers. Photo: Jessica Gow / TT

– We strongly suspect that we can come into conflict with ALMEGA, he said.

Sweden’s Engineers and the Union to introduce the system of flexible retirement, higher contributions to pension and the option to reduce working hours by the end of working life, even in the service sector, but employers in ALMEGA say no.

Swedish Engineers have begun prepare for a possible conflict in the contract areas of iT / telecom, STD and development and services.

When asked how the conflict may appear responds Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers negotiator Camilla Frankelius that ” can become strike on Almega areas, but the precise details have not been determined yet. “

Although the Union is prepared to conflict with ALMEGA, according to the member magazine Colleague.

– We are moving towards a confrontation in terms of flex pension, terms of agreements without figures, in terms of working time issues and rules for cutbacks. There are big, important issues. It’s not that we seek conflict, but we are prepared if necessary to safeguard the Swedish model, says the Union’s negotiating Niklas Hjert.