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Welfare and work

Healthcare, care and jobs – who carries the welfare state, and at what price.

30 articles

LO says no to shorter working hours – Kommunal goes ahead on its own

Redaktionen · Oct 22, 2026 · 3 min read

The LO unions could not agree to jointly pursue the demand for shorter working hours. The trade union Kommunal wanted to go further and is now choosing to pursu...

Director reassigned after care crisis in Umeå – to solve staffing shortage

Redaktionen · Oct 17, 2026 · 3 min read

Following 465 incident reports at an elderly care home, Umeå's director of elderly care is leaving her post after ten years. Instead, she will lead an initiativ...

Report proves young employees right after alarm over life-threatening play center

Redaktionen · Oct 16, 2026 · 3 min read

Young employees at Leos lekland in Stora Bernstorp raised the alarm about life-threatening deficiencies and subsequently lost their jobs. The company's own insp...

40 employees at Sunsalat in uncertainty after meeting with union and police

Redaktionen · Oct 11, 2026 · 3 min read

Around 40 employees from the food company Sunsalat gathered for a meeting with the union and the police in Åstorp. After the meeting, the staff are still left w...

Collective agreement can cost assistant nurses thousands of kronor

Redaktionen · Oct 9, 2026 · 3 min read

Assistant nurses who reduce their working hours before retirement risk losing thousands of kronor due to a rule in the collective agreement. The newspaper Arbet...

85 assistant nurses have resigned from Region Uppsala in nine months

Redaktionen · Oct 6, 2026 · 3 min read

85 assistant nurses have left Region Uppsala in just nine months. The trade union Kommunal warns that heavy patients and strained schedules mean staff cannot co...

The union and builders sound the alarm after revelation of ROT fraud

Redaktionen · Oct 6, 2026 · 3 min read

Uppdrag granskning has shown that it is possible to receive ROT compensation without any work having been performed. The trade union Byggnads and business owner...

Farm intern was forced to work grueling night shifts and plummeted in weight

Redaktionen · Oct 5, 2026 · 3 min read

A Ukrainian man who came to a farm via an internship program was forced to work so hard that he lost over 20 kilos. Several interns at the same farm testify abo...

Only one in three municipalities has a crisis plan for health and social care

Redaktionen · Sep 29, 2026 · 3 min read

Only 32 percent of Sweden's municipalities have an up-to-date crisis plan for health and social care, shows Socialstyrelsen. For HVB homes for children and youn...

Dispute over work shoes for 41 million in Stockholm's welfare

Redaktionen · Sep 27, 2026 · 3 min read

The City of Stockholm is investing 41 million kronor in work shoes for elderly care, preschools, and social services. The Social Democrats warn that the initiat...

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