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Juholt expected to resign as Social Democrat head

Politics: 21 Jan 12
Despite Friday’s announcement by the Social Democrat Executive Committee that embattled leader Håkan Juholt will remain at the helm, many now believe that he will announce his resignation on Saturday afternoon. READ »

Social Democrats eject Sahlin old guard

Politics: 21 Mar 11
Thomas Östros and Ylva Johansson, key figures in the Social Democrat leadership under former leader Mona Sahlin, are set to be replaced on the party's executive committee as the party goes in search of a sense of renewal. READ »

Swedish unions have become obsolete: leaders

Business & Money: 13 Feb 11
Two of Sweden's union leaders have singled out the failure of the organisations to modernise their approaches to collective bargaining as a major reason an increasing number of Swedes choose not to become members. READ »

Swedish CEO salaries 'unacceptable': union

Business & Money: 7 Feb 11
The CEOs of Sweden's 50 largest companies earn on average 40 times more than an industrial worker, a finding that a union organisation head believes is "totally unacceptable" and requires a "popular uprising" to remedy. READ »

Top Swedish execs hire bodyguards over threats

National: 14 Jan 11
An increasing number of Sweden's top business executives are hiring bodyguards as the threat and risk of robbery and extortion grows in the country. READ »

Swedish union head to leave next year

National: 12 Jan 11
Wanja Lundby-Wedin, the chairwoman of one of Sweden's largest and most influential trade union groups, has announced that she will step down at the group's next congress in the spring of 2012. READ »

Minister defends labour migration law

Business & Money: 23 Nov 10
Sweden's migration minister has denied claims by a Swedish umbrella union organisation that unscrupulous companies are abusing new rules that have eased the migration of foreign workers. READ »

Live Blog: post-election developments

National: 22 Sep 10
Latest: The Liberal Party - and by extension the Alliance - has missed out one seat it needed to gain in Gothenburg to the Social Democrats - by just four votes. READ »

Union blames ministers for berry pickers' plight

Politics: 12 Aug 10
Sweden’s largest trade union group, LO, has slammed the government over the suffering of foreign berry pickers in northern Sweden. READ »

Liberals propose state unemployment insurance

Business & Money: 27 May 10
The Liberal Party (Folkpartiet) has reiterated its call for a state-run unemployment insurance fund, risking a conflict with the Swedish Trade Union Confederation who consider unemployment insurance to be a union matter. READ »

Reinfeldt reclaims top spot in Sweden power rankings

National: 6 Nov 09
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt can once again lay claim to the title of Sweden’s most power person, having nudged his own finance minister Anders Borg from the top spot in a new ranking released on Thursday. READ »

Swedish tabloid apologizes for union boss doppelganger mix-up

National: 25 May 09
Swedish tabloid newspaper Expressen published pictures and an interview with scandal-hit union chief Wanja Lundby-Wedin on Monday, only to find that they had spoken to, and photographed, the wrong woman. READ »

Union chief criticized for taxable perk error

National: 24 May 09
Wanja Lundby-Wedin, head of Sweden’s Trade Union Confederation (LO), has been criticized for letting her husband stay for free at an Italian holiday camp. The union-owned resort is also being pursued by Italian police for unpaid social taxes. READ »

Lundby-Wedin booed during May Day speech

Politics: 2 May 09
Wanja Lundby-Wedin, head of Sweden’s Trade Union Confederation (LO), was both cheered and heckled during her May Day speech on Friday. Around 12,500 people gathered at the largest May Day march in Stockholm. READ »

Sahlin hit by massive crisis of confidence

Politics: 8 Apr 09
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt enjoys almost twice as much voter support as Social Democratic leader Mona Sahlin, according to a new survey. READ »

Union chief avoids sack

National: 7 Apr 09
Wanja Lundby-Wedin is to remain in her post as head of Sweden’s Trade Union Confederation (LO), it was announced after a seven hour board meeting on Monday. READ »

Union chief resigns from AMF Pension

Politics: 5 Apr 09
Wanja Lundby-Wedin, head of Sweden’s Trade Union Confederation (LO) has resigned from the board of AMF Pension. The announcement was made after a meeting of LO's board on Sunday. READ »

Alliance overtakes opposition: poll

Politics: 4 Apr 09
The Alliance government in Sweden has overtaken the red-green opposition, a new poll shows. The poll indicates that in an election the far-right Sweden Democrats would be left holding the balance of power. READ »

AMF board tells ex-CEO to repay pension

Business & Money: 30 Mar 09
The board of AMF Pension said late Sunday night that they had been misled about the size of former CEO Christer Elmehagen’s pension and requested that he pay more than 20 million kronor ($2.4 million) back to the company. READ »

Pressure mounts on union head to quit

Politics: 25 Mar 09
The head of the third largest district of Sweden’s Trade Union Confederation (LO), is calling for the organization’s national leader, Wanja Lundby-Wedin, to step down. READ »

Income gap widening in Sweden: study

Society: 4 Feb 09
Top managers from the Swedish business world earn 50 times as much as a common labourer, according to a new study carried out by one of the country’s largest labour organizations. READ »

Borg tops in Sweden power rankings

National: 14 Nov 08
Finance minister Anders Borg has surpassed prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt as Sweden’s most influential powerbroker, according to a new ranking. READ »

Outcry after Sahlin's Left Party snub

Politics: 9 Oct 08
Mona Sahlin has come in for withering criticism from both labour groups and members of her own Social Democratic Party following a decision to embrace the Greens at the expense of further cooperation with Sweden’s Left Party. READ »

Membership collapse worries union boss

National: 1 Jun 08
The Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) spokesperson Wanja Lundby-Wedin used her opening speech at the 26th congress to address the collapse in union membership. READ »

Swedish labour model set for a facelift after 70 years

Business & Money: 6 May 08
Sweden’s main employers’ and employees’ associations have announced plans for a major revision to the agreement which has governed Sweden’s labour relations for seven decades. READ »

Swedish unions bleed members

National: 4 Feb 08
Wanja Lundby-Wedin, chairwoman of trade union federation LO, points the finger at Labour Market Minister Sven Otto Littorin. READ »

Reinfeldt one year on

Analysis & Opinion: 17 Sep 07
Political whizzes or hapless novices? The Local asked two leading analysts - PJ Anders Linder and Stig-Björn Ljunggren - to give their view of the Alliance government's first year in power. READ »

Many LO members voted for far right

Politics: 10 May 07
Had last year's election been decided by members of the LO trade union confederation, the Sweden Democrats would have received the 4 percent share of the votes required for a place in parliament. READ »

Social Democrats vow to overturn unemployment insurance reforms

Politics: 30 Apr 07
Social Democrat leader, Mona Sahlin, and head of LO, Wanja Lundby-Wedin, have called for a return to unemployment insurance levels in existence before the government's recent reforms. READ »

Unions demonstrate against benefit cuts

Politics: 14 Dec 06
Thousands of union members demonstrated in central Stockholm on Thursday against government plans to raise premiums for unemployment insurance, while cutting benefit payments. READ »

LO takes benefits battle to the streets

Politics: 14 Dec 06
Sweden's largest trade union confederation, LO, is today staging nationwide demonstrations to protest the government's controversial new unemployment insurance reforms. READ »

Unions row over sympathy strikes

Society: 21 Nov 06
A war of words has broken out between hardliners and moderates in the Swedish LO union confederation. Metall boss Stefan Löfvén wants to hold fire on sympathy strikes, but the transport union says he has "given up the battle against capital." READ »

Unions demand massive wage hikes

Society: 6 Nov 06
Sweden's trade union confederation LO has said it will call for monthly wage increases of 825 kronor for its members. Employers say it would be "extremely unfortunate" if LO's demands were met. READ »

Next Social Democrat chief 'need not be a woman'

Politics: 27 Oct 06
While many senior figures in the Social Democratic Party are insisting that the next leader must be a woman, local party representatives say they don't care – as long as he or she wins the next election. READ »

Hunt for Persson's successor begins

Politics: 21 Oct 06
Former foreign minister and deputy prime minister Lena Hjelm-Wallén has been tasked with finding a successor to Göran Persson, who will step down as party leader in March. READ »

Unions threaten action against Alliance

Politics: 22 Sep 06
Swedish unions and employers have come to blows after LO leader Wanja Lundby-Wedin said her organization would "take action" if the new government implemented its manifesto commitments. READ »

Wallström 'honoured' by leadership support

Politics: 19 Sep 06
Sweden's European commissioner Margot Wallström is emerging as the popular choice to lead the Social Democrats after Göran Persson steps down in March. READ »

?There will be Green ministers?

Analysis & Opinion: 22 May 06
We will be part of the government if the left wins the next election, Green Party spokesman Peter Eriksson tells The Local in an exclusive interview. But even under this government, the Greens have made their presence felt. READ »

Riksbank deputy: inflation is bad for jobs

Business & Money: 12 May 06
The deputy governor of the Swedish central bank has hit back at Social Democrat criticism of rising interest rates. Inflation would be bad for employment, she says. READ »

Persson launches May 1st assault on Alliance

Politics: 1 May 06
The Social Democrats' big guns, including the prime minister, were firing at May 1st meets around Sweden. And they all had the conservative alliance and Swedish business in their sights. READ »

Swedish interest rate hike "likely in April"

Business & Money: 12 Apr 06
Inflation in Sweden is creeping up and could be paving the way for a rise in interest rates within two weeks, say analysts. READ »

White collar unions overtake LO

National: 27 Feb 06
Sweden's powerful blue collar union movement LO now has fewer members than TCO and Saco, which represents professionals - due to changes in the employment market, says LO's boss. READ »

Four more years of Göran

Politics: 31 Oct 05
That’s four more years at the head of the Social Democratic Party, at least, as Göran Persson is voted in for the fourth time by his party congress. I'm not worn out, he says, and speculates he might stay even longer than four years. READ »

FI has damaged feminism - LO chief

Politics: 25 Oct 05
The head of union movement LO has accused Sweden's Feminist Initiative of harming feminism. Wanja Lundby-Wedin also admits that former Social Democrats are being tempted by the Moderates. READ »

L?emploi en Suède

Smörgåsbord: 5 May 05
Qu’il s’agisse des discours du premier mai, des propositions des syndicats pour réagir face au chômage, ou encore d’un nouveau site internet d’offres d’emplois aux méthodes très controversées, les problèmes lies à l’emploi sont au cœur de l’actualité de la semaine. READ »

Strident talk on May Day parades

Politics: 2 May 05
Sweden's lefties raise the red flag on their traditional May Day marches. Joblessness is high on the agenda, as Wanja Lundby-Wedin, leader of Sweden's trade unionists, blames high unemployment on the Swedish central bank. READ »

Union chiefs to evict "needy women" from holiday cottages

Society: 23 Nov 04
The housing charity scandal continues as a group of cottages which have been hired out to elderly and low-income women for generations are to be pulled down - to make way for luxury homes. READ »

Fat kids disunited

Society: 24 Jun 04
What's worse about the youth of today? That they're too fat, claiming too much social benefit or rejecting old-fashioned socialist values? READ »


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12 February 21:30

The consciousness of one »

"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »

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Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.


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