166 000 working days lost

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A total of 166 000 working days were lost as a result of fourteen labour disputes in 2016. By comparison, the main settlements in 2014 had ten stoppages and 148 000 working days were lost.

A total of 8 900 employees were affected in a total of fourteen disputes in 2016. Most of the lost working days in 2016 were in hotels and restaurants. This was a total of 6 300 employees and 92 700 lost working days. This makes up 56 per cent of all working days lost in 2016.

Figure 1. Wage earners in work stoppages

Oil and gas extraction and mining Manufacture Construction Transportation and storage Hotels and restaurants Public adm., defence, soc. security Education Human health and social work activities
1998 0 270 0 13346 243 225 3137 6094
1999 160 57 0 129 14 0 11 0
2000 2490 57714 18825 3980 2446 0 17 3721
2001 0 5 0 0 24 0 0 0
2002 400 4353 139 64 3040 0 0 1561
2003 78 3 0 0 0 0 2 0
2004 752 5867 451 1710 27 0 1059 0
2005 139 0 452 0 0 0 0 0
2006 87 0 16000 0 1651 588 0 0
2007 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 496
2008 0 727 0 0 626 0 10262 1257
2009 0 36 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 0 19 14527 1740 0 1600 14854 28806
2011 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0
2012 926 0 371 70 0 7580 2372 25535
2013 0 0 0 391 0 0 0 0
2014 0 0 0 72 0 0 7821 0
2015 0 354 0 463 0 0 14 0
2016 0 0 0 813 6322 0 0 628

Collection of data, editing and estimations

Submission of these statistics is voluntary, with 31 December as the reference date. In addition, see the Riksmeklingsmannen column for information about work stoppages. Control and revision of the information is manual, and aims to safeguard the consistency of the information from one year to another. The organisations are contacted to clarify any uncertainties.

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