New Case Law – Review of industrial action

Interim review of industrial action.

Following the conclusion of a collective agreement for dockworkers between Ports of Sweden and the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union, the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union initiated industrial action for a collective agreement in the same area, and Ports of Sweden raised an industrial peace obligation objection. The Labour Court has found that the industrial action is not intended to supersede the existing collective agreement or to exert pressure in any legal dispute. The Ports of Sweden’s objections to the industrial action could therefore not be accepted.

Read more here (in Swedish).