New case law – case concerning notice of industrial action (AD 2026 no. 32)

An employee organisation has given notice to an employer organisation of a permissible industrial action (sympathy action) in the form of a blockade against all waste handling associated with a company, at eleven specified addresses where the company conducts business. The parties disputed whether the scope of the industrial action was unclear and whether the employee organisation had therefore violated Section 45 of the Co-Determination in the Workplace Act.

The Labor Court found that the notice was not unclear regarding which of the employer organisation’s member companies, or which employees, that were covered by the notice. According to the Labor Court, the notice was also not unclear regarding which work tasks that were covered by the notice. The employee organisation’s notice was therefore not unclear with respect to the scope of the announced industrial action. Thus, the employee organisation did not violate Section 45 of the Co-Determination in the Workplace Act.

Read more here (Swedish).