Today five unions are covered by the Industrial Agreement. Together the unions perform under the name The Swedish Unions within Industry. The five unions are The Swedish union of Forestry, Wood and Graphical Workers’ (GS), The Food Workers’ Union (LIVS), The Industrial and Metal Workers’ Union (IF Metall), The Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers (Sveriges Ingenjörer) and Unionen.

The aim of the cooperation

• To strengthen the position of the unions and increase their strength against the employer organizations.
•  To uphold the nationwide sectoral collective agreements and the principle that bargains on new national agreements must include rules that raise the wages.
• To strengthen the wage setting role of the sector subjected to international competition on the Swedish labour market.

Important tasks

•   Coordinating the unions’ actions against the employer organizations covered by the Industrial Agreement
•  To strengthen and develop the cooperation between both the unions and employers in order to develop Swedish industry
• To prepare issues to be dealt with on the Industrial Committee’s and the Industrial Council’s meetings
•   To promote a deeper and more solid cooperation between the unions at all levels (from local to international level)
•  To seek cooperation regarding both policy and practical issues in order to improve efficiency and to thereby enable the better use of union resources