Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2025, published 114th ILC session (2026)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Sweden (Ratification: 1949)

Article 3 of the Convention. Right of organizations to freely organize their activities and to formulate their programmes. In its previous comment, the Committee noted the adoption and entering into force in 2019 of a bill entitled “Extended obligation to keep the peace in workplaces where there is a collective agreement and in the event of legal disputes”, which amended the Act on Co-Determination in the Workplace, and requested the Government to provide information on developments under these amendments. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that it has not conducted any evaluation of the rules regarding extended industrial peace at workplaces with collective agreements. The Committee takes due note of the Government’s indication that an interim decision issued by the Labour Court in 2025 rejected an objection by an employers’ organization to an industrial action, which the employers’ organization had based on the grounds of an alleged breach of the peace obligation: the Court found that the industrial action was a traditional, permissible pressure tactic and that it was irrelevant whether the trade union also intended to use the pressure to influence the outcome of a legal dispute.