The Swedish syndicalist union SAC calls upon all 2.5 million Swedish
private sector workers to engage in a political strike against the proposal to cut of the subsidies to unemployed* and the total reform of the unemployment system, by the new right-wing Swedish government. The proposal is to reduce the payment to the unemployed. This has awakened the sleepy working movement in Sweden.
All the unions are making different forms of actions, meetings of
companies,
official notices of protests, threats to allow garbage to pile up
outside
the seat of the government etc.
The most radical action comes from the libertarian union, SAC. Today
the SAC
has issued a call for general strike for the 15 of November against the
proposal. The proposal comes to a vote on 16 November in the Swedish
parliament. The official call of the SAC goes out to all 2.5 million
private
sector workers, although the SAC only has affiliated 7000 thousands.
All the workers in the private sector (in the public sector political
strikes are prohibited) can legally follow the SAC call. The Secretary
General of SAC, Moa Norell, explains today in an article in Aftonbladet
(the
largest circulation newspaper in Sweden)
that all those
workers
can participate in political strike although they have prohibited all
union
strikes (since the large unions are tied by the collective agreements).
In all Sweden the 15 of November there are mobilizations for a 2 hour political strike... The SAC calls on all its affiliates to for 24 hours. The readers who know the Swedish can follow the preparations of strike in the page SAC Web http://coopsite.sac.se
Ronny Stansert
