The People's Party (New) Liberals wants to increase the power of the employer side. In a debate article in Aftonbladet questions the member of parliament Christer Nylander (fp) the reasonableness of sympathy strikes. The background is that SEKO objects to Veolia's plans. Veolia wants to fire and rehire staff on worse terms to finance a previous underbid.
The citizens can hit blue fumes in their eyes on the people for a certain time but in the end always shows its true face:
"Veolia won the procurement of the Öresund traffic in 2011, with a bid that was more than SEK 50 million below the nearest competitor. Seko believes that this is likely the background to why Veolia now has to reduce its costs. " (Source: The flame)
It opens up a dangerous legal principle that companies take the right to finance undercutting by dismissing staff and then rehiring them with worse conditions. It threatens everyone's hope for legitimate working conditions and good pay. Such undercutting with accompanying impairments also undermines the competitiveness of serious companies. How much power would SEKO have to influence Veolia without sympathy measures from other unions? SEKO is just a department within LO, Veolia had a turnover of SEK 3 billion in 2012. A billion in turnover is the definition of a large company...
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