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On Monday, the chief security representative and Arriva will meet. The outcome of that meeting will determine whether parts of the staff go on a wildcat strike and simply refuse to work.
– It may be that the routes will be totally or partially canceled due to the acute shortage of personnel that will arise, especially when train conductors go on strike, says an anonymous spokesman for the newly formed strike committee in Pågatågen.
The spokesperson says that around a hundred employees in Pågatågen are ready to carry out the threat of strike.
Conflict over new employment conditions
A dispute between the union and the employer over Pågatågen, Skånetrafiken’s local and regional trains, has been going on for a long time. Behind the conflict is that the employer unilaterally wants employees to reduce working hours and wages.
On Tuesday, a security representative was offered two years’ pay to leave his post, something that prompted a group of union members to form the strike committee.
The strike committee wants to remain anonymous
The committee’s spokesperson only chooses to appear in an interview with SVT Nyheter Skåne under the promise of anonymity.
– What we see Arriva doing to the chief security representative are threats and harassment. I and the strike committee don’t want to be exposed to it, says the committee spokesperson.
What do you mean then?
– It is a threat to get rid of work. Then there is the harassment to go to a chief security representative and buy it. He is a combative chief security representative who has only done his job in an exemplary manner.
Arriva: “An action against current collective agreements”
Arriva has heard of the threat of a wildcat strike. But you don’t want to give any information in advance.
– We have noticed that it has been debated on social networks. It is an action against the collective agreements in force since there is a duty of peace. Otherwise, Arriva has no comment, but this is a threat that is conditioned on an action we take against an employee, says Christer Ekelund, Arriva’s communications manager.
Why do you want the chief security representative to buy?
– We have had a conversation with an employee who has chosen to appear in the media with selected parts of that conversation. We never comment on or refer to our conversations with our employees, says Christer Ekelund.
Arriva also does not want to comment on the measures and consequences of a wildcat strike at this time.
