This is about extended overtime, extra time, new recruitment and hiring blockade, which comes into force in the morning of June 24.
The reason is according to Kommunal that private healthcare companies have mapped employees' union membership and tried to pressure them from participating in the conflict.
"This is nothing but an attack on the Swedish model. When employers map union membership and try to circumvent the right to strike, they use the labor market's ugliest tricks", says Kommunal's contract secretary Johan Ingelskog in a press release.
"Ensure safety"
Antje Dedering, the Swedish Association of Health Care Entrepreneurs' managing director, denies that it is about mapping.
"That our member companies ask who intends to participate in the conflict is mainly about ensuring safety for patients and the elderly, and secondly about practicalities such as salary payments", she says in a press release.
Already last week, on June 3, the LO union notified a strike among employees in private care and nursing as well as elderly care. In the relevant agreement areas, around 50,000 people work, and the affected workplaces include, among other things, health centers, hospitals and nursing homes.
Concerns overtime
The dispute is about overtime compensation, where the Swedish Association of Health Care Entrepreneurs, according to Kommunal, has opposed that part-time employees should receive the same compensation for overtime as full-time employees.
A majority of those who work in private elderly care companies are part-time employees.
The Swedish Association of Health Care Entrepreneurs calls the union's notified conflict measures regrettable and irresponsible.
"We have offered Kommunal the same conditions that apply to the rest of the labor market, but they want more", says Antje Dedering according to the press release.
