Media News - Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Journalists’ union conflict intensifies

Sweden's largest journalists' union has announced new strike measures designed to affect the web editions and advertising departments of a large number of Swedish newspapers. The latest round of industrial action called by the Swedish Union of Journalists (Svenska Journalistförbundet) is scheduled to begin on August 30th. All newspapers affiliated with the Swedish Newspaper Publishers' Association (Tidningsutgivarna - TU), with just a few exceptions, will be affected by the most recent escalation of the SJF/TU conflict. The following terms are included in SJF's notice: no material is to be released to the web that has previously been published in the paper editions; there is to be a ban on all contact with advertisements or advertising pages; no material may be published that has not been produced by a newspaper's own employees. SJF's move is a response to TU's calls for a lock-out of around 4,000 journalists. TU in turn was reacting to SJF's announcement on Friday that it was prepared to begin industrial action in a bid to secure better conditions for its workers. (The Local)

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