member_of_political_party arvid thorberg
Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries , working conditions , benefits , and other aspects of workers ' compensation and rights . The interests of the employees are commonly presented by representatives of a trade ___MASK30___ to which the employees belong . The collective agreements reached by these negotiations usually set out wage scales , working hours , training , health and safety , overtime , grievance mechanisms , and rights to participate in workplace or company affairs . Arvid Thorberg ( born 1877 , Kärrbo , d . 1930 ) was a Swedish trade ___MASK30___ organizer . By profession he was a carpenter , and belonged to the Wood Workers ___MASK30___ . He was the chairman of the Swedish Trade ___MASK30___ Confederation from 1920 - 1930 . A trade ___MASK30___ ( British EnglishAustralian EnglishNew Zealand EnglishSouth African English / Caribbean English ; also trades ___MASK30___ ), labour ___MASK30___ ( Canadian English ), or labor ___MASK30___ ( American English ) is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade , improving safety standards , achieving higher pay and benefits such as health care and retirement , increasing the number of employees an employer assigns to complete the work , and better working conditions . The trade ___MASK30___ , through its leadership , bargains with the employer on behalf of ___MASK30___ members ( rank and file members ) and negotiates labour contracts ( collective bargaining ) with employers . The most common purpose of these associations or unions is " maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment ". This may include the negotiation of wages , work rules , complaint procedures , rules governing hiring , firing and promotion of workers , benefits , workplace safety and policies . The Swedish Trade ___MASK30___ Confederation ( literally " National Organisation in Sweden "), commonly referred to as LO , is a national trade ___MASK30___ centre , an umbrella organisation for fourteen Swedish trade unions that organise mainly " blue - collar " workers . The Confederation , which gathers in total about 1 , 5 million employees out of Sweden ' s 9 , 6 million people population , was founded in 1898 by blue - collar unions on the initiative of the 1897 Scandinavian Labour Congress and the ___MASK15___ , which almost exclusively was made up by trade unions . In 2012 ___MASK30___ density of Swedish blue - collar workers was 67 %, a decline by ten percentage points in six years ( ___MASK30___ density in 2006 : 77 %). A strongly contributing factor was the considerably raised fees to ___MASK30___ unemployment funds in January 2007 made by the new centre - right government . The ___MASK15___ , ( SAP ; literally , " Social Democratic Workers ' Party of Sweden "), contesting elections as the " Arbetarepartiet  Socialdemokraterna " (' The Workers ' Party  The Social Democrats '), usually referred to just as the ' Social Democrats ' (" Socialdemokraterna "); is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden . The current party leader since 2012 is Stefan Löfven ; he has also been Prime Minister of Sweden since 2014 .