According to several news reports this week, Labor talks broke down this past weekend between the Swedish Paper Workers' Union (Svenska Pappers) and the employers' Forest Industry Association (Skogsindustrierna, SFIF). An overtime and new staff ban and a blockade of temporary workers started at all Swedish papers mills on Monday evening of this week, and if no agreement is reached in the meantime, selective strikes will begin at six Swedish pulp and paper mills on April 16. The mills affected by the strike are SCA Munksund, Iggesund, Korsnäs Gävle, Stora Enso Skoghall, Billerud Skärblacka, and Södra Cell Värö.
Negotiations between Svenska Pappers and Skogsindustrierna have been going on since the middle of December last year. The previous collective agreement ended March 31. The Scandinavian pulp and paper industry has been already hit twice this year, by the earthquake in Chile and the Finnish stevedores strike.
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