New Case Law – Review of industrial action

Interim review of industrial action.

After Ports of Sweden and the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union entered into a collective agreement for dockworkers, the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union initiated industrial action for a collective agreement in the same area. Ports of Sweden raised an industrial peace obligation objection and brought an action against the notified industrial action. In a decision dated 26 May 2025 (AD 2025 nr 35), the Labour Court rejected a request for an interim decision. The Swedish Dockworkers’ Union then gave notice of further industrial action and the Ports of Sweden brought a new action. The Labour Court has found that the notified industrial action aimed to achieve a collective bargaining agreement, that the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union has negotiated its contractual requirements with Ports of Sweden, and that at the current stage of the investigation there are no grounds for considering that the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union’s purpose with the industrial action is to supersede the collective agreement between Ports of Sweden and the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union, 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).