Hamnarbetarstrejken be extended to more locations

Strike runs from 07 to 10 o'clock on Thursday, then the terms of the employer's lockout until midnight.

– Because we have obligations to the third party so will the dockers still, among other things, to cast off and take the ferries during the day. However, we will not accept trucks or cargo and the like, " says Peter Ströbæk, chairman Hamnarbetarförbundet in Stockholm, sweden to SVT News.

is about which trade unions representing the dockers. Hamnarbetarförbundet have been offered a so-called hängavtal to the existing collective agreement the employers ' association Swedish ports with the trade union Transport. But Hamnarbetarförbundet want to have their own collective agreements with the Swedish ports.

on Tuesday put the government mediator submitted a bid that was rejected from the Hamnarbetarförbundet.

On Wednesday began punktstrejker in several ports in Sweden. At the same time, the mediators presented a proposal for a new förhandlingsdatum, on 4 and 5 February. But the slot to meet the employers in new direktförhandlingar with, but over the Wednesday, received the proposal on förhandlingsdatum with the state.

According to the employers is one-to-one not in the news until the strike has been suspended.

for the strike is likely to hit the industry and consumers about the long-term.

the Strike began on Wednesday at the ports of Gävle, Helsingborg, sweden, Holmsund, Karlshamn, Malmö, Sundsvall, Söderhamn, Umeå, and then extended to Stockholm and Gothenburg.

Read more: the Strike has broken out in several Swedish ports