Left Party promise: Billions for
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Left Party promise: Billions for higher wages in welfare professions

The Left Party wants to spend three billion in state funds a year for ten years to raise wages in welfare professions. Women in healthcare, education and social care must receive fair wages, says Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar.

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To reduce the pay gap between men and women, the Left Party wants to allocate 30 billion kronor over a ten-year period to a gender equality fund. This is in addition to the wage settlements that unions and employers usually agree on.

This is an important election promise from us, Dadgostar says at a press conference before she joins the Left's May Day march in Stockholm.

According to the proposal, the social partners can then distribute the money to reduce the devaluation of female-dominated professions in the welfare sector. She points out that industrial workers earn several thousand Swedish kronor more per month despite not having more education.

It is pure value discrimination.

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AuthorTT News AgencyEnglish edition by Sweden Herald, adapted for our readers
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