Since the autumn of 2015, the club organization Swedish Elite Football (Sef) and Player Association with the help of the Employers’ Alliance and the union Union tried to agree on a new contract for the players in the Allsvenskan and Superettan.
After several attempts have now negotiations suspended, any which can mean a strike or lock-out within a month. Playing Society General Secretary Magnus Erling Mark told on Thursday that the situation was locked.
– We tried long to find a solution and have even taken the help of mediator to try to resolve this but we have not found out. Who knows, it might be possible to reach agreement, but at the same time it may have to end up with one of the parties terminates the agreement to which the use of any of the industrial actions that are in accordance with labor laws, says Erling Mark now Soccer Channel. >
Do you have any time frame right now?
– It’s a month’s notice of termination of the contract and we have a partnership with the Union, where our members are also members of the Union so it is really the Union that controls this. They decide when to make a possible termination of the agreement and how we move on then. Even if we do everything with them, so the decision is there.
– You can play football, even without an agreement, but it is a conflict so it will likely be no football. Then there will be a lockout or strike, says Erling Mark.
After playing the association’s general secretary Magnus Erlingmark yesterday spoke about the negotiations so let Sef a press release on Friday which made clear that the crucial issue which the parties do not agree on is pipes pension provisions. Where players require an increase of 1.5 percent, while the clubs mean that it is impossible. A locking stops any negotiations.
– Right now it is so. We represent only the unions, it is they who must say yes or no to this. An association today really put all their capacity to play costs. All available capital have put it on the player salaries to be as competitive as possible. And it does it’s also difficult to find extra space, says SEFS Secretary General Mats Enquist.
2012, the negotiations between the SEF and play association for a new collective agreement, before they finally could agree. Magnus Erlingmark mean that a strike would be a unique situation.
– In Sweden, the football players never strike. We added a strike notice in recent negotiations, but the parties agreed to a deal last day before a possible strike at the time. But in Norway and Denmark, it has strejkats at different times for different reasons, and in the NHL has the clubs run lockout the players, he says to Football Channel.
There’s a month’s notice on contract and less than a month to the Allsvenskan premiere. Do you think that playing football as usual in April?
– I do not know. I hope so, but I really do not know.
SEFS Secretary General Mats Enquist does not want to talk about a possible strike, and hope that the parties to agree on a solution.
– I hope that all parties will find a way to unite so that we do not need to talk about the strike. I think it is wrong to speculate on strike if I’ll be honest. There is a respect for all parties to have sensible agreement, of course. I think we have found solutions that are quite far-reaching in terms of protection for players. Both of these negotiations and in previous negotiations. But there is a limit to what unions can afford.
Are you hopeful that you will be able to come to a solution?
– Yes, I hope. It must be everyone’s starting point. And that’s ultimately the clubs and the players to agree, it is they who are employers / employees. But negotiations take place between the Union and the Employer Alliance and it is up to them to negotiate in a professional manner. But I hope they will find a solution, of course. But right now it looks like heavily.
Can you summarize what happens in the future?
– I do not know. It is the Union and employers’ alliance that drives it all. And somewhere you have to consider going with the requirements or there is the option to terminate the contract or call a strike, but it’s nothing that I want to speculate.
So the ball is on their side right now ?
– the ball is in the Union and the Employer Alliance to help us find solutions course. It is left in this package is something that the clubs have been very difficult to go along with so it is tricky in this situation, says Mats Enquist at Soccer Channel.
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