The trade unions within the industry want to see increased real wages when the new agreement is signed next year.
The previous agreement, which was for two years, had a contractual value of 7.4 percent.
Now the trade unions see "good reasons to continue with a wage increase rate in the same range as the parties agreed on in the agreements of 2023", write the chairmen of GS, the Food Workers' Union, IF Metall, the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers, and the Union in a debate article in Dagens Nyheter.
They write further that "The Swedish Central Bank has reached the inflation target and employees' real wages are increasing again".
The trade unions are ready to negotiate the first wage agreements in the upcoming bargaining round and thereby set the so-called mark for wage increases on the labor market.
The article authors also want the allocation to the various systems for working hour reductions to continue to increase.
