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148 000 working days lost
A total of 148 000 working days were lost as a result of ten labour disputes in 2014. By comparison, the main settlements in 2012 had ten stoppages involving 361 000 employees.
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Work stoppages | 2 | 11 | 6 | 10 |
| Wage earnings in wage stoppages | 114 | 41 820 | 1 385 | 8 983 |
| Working days lost | 526 | 360 643 | 10 849 | 148 009 |
A total of 9 000 employees were affected in a total of ten disputes in 2014. Most of the lost working days in 2014 were among the teachers in publicly maintained schools. This was a total of 7 800 employees and 131 000 lost working days. This makes up 88 per cent of all working days lost in 2014.
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Years with main settlements, such as 2014, usually have more lost working days than years with mid-term settlements. Main settlements take place every two years, which means that two-yearly agreements are entered into for most of the tariff ranges. In the years with mid-term settlements, existing agreements are only revised, and this explains a large part of the year-on-year variations in these statistics.
The statistics is now published as Trade union members and strikes.
Additional information
The statistics cover industrial disputes, or work stoppages, of at least one day's duration. The number of disputes per year is calculated based on the number of trade union federations or confederations that have had groups of employees involved in a work stoppage.
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