After Pim van Dorpel’s sudden resignation, Byggnad’s Johan Lindholm was elected as the brand new LO chairman – and was met with optimistic reactions from the delegates.
– I need to really feel that the ability I felt within the corridor strikes out into the workplaces.
After a stormy begin to the congress, the place the choice committee’s proposal for chairman all of a sudden dropped out, a brand new LO chairman might lastly be elected on Saturday. Johan Lindholm, former chairman of Byggnads, was elected by a unanimous choice committee and with all 14 unions behind him.
Johan Lindholm, former chairman of Byggnads, was elected by a unanimous election committee as LO chairman on Saturday. Photograph: Amanda Lindholm.
– I do know what function I’ve been chosen for and I’ll give the whole lot to advance the positions, in life and within the working lifetime of employees all through Sweden, he mentioned from the congress scene.
60-year-old Johan Lindholm, who’s mainly a carpenter, has been chairman of Byggnads since 2012. In contrast to the choice committee’s first proposal, Pim Van Dorpel of the resort and restaurant union, Johan Lindholm is a well-known face to many LO members. On the press convention, he was requested why he thinks he’s known as a “radical”.
– I do not know if you’re radical since you take heed to the members and suppose that what they are saying is what we must always do, he answered.
Shortening working hours is a sizzling subject through the congress and the assorted LO unions haven’t totally agreed on methods to take care of it – by way of laws or agreements. Nonetheless, Johan Lindholm is evident that it’s primarily agreements that apply.
– On this case, we’re speaking about an settlement, that’s how the Swedish mannequin works.
The largest problem for the group, says Johan Lindholm, is to be related.
– This energy that’s right here within the corridor should attain out to all of the hundreds of employees who haven’t but chosen to hitch.
do it, do it’s good to do one thing completely different?
– Sure, I feel it is about being out and assembly on web site, assembly and discussing.
And that the pattern of declining membership numbers will be damaged, Johan Lindholm is satisfied:
– Every single day of the week.
Dagens Arbete took the heart beat of the congress guests instantly after the election of Johan Lindholm.
Anna Fernebo, IF Metall, Northwest Scania.
– Johan is available in with a lot of expertise. I’m completely satisfied that he can shoulder this function. He’s a heavy and assured opinion maker. Now he simply must be LO-celebrated and let go of some coronary heart points from Byggnads. I’ve excessive expectations for this complete group. They are going to revitalize LO.
What would be the massive challenges?
– Byggnads has had a totally completely different view than us on IF metall concerning wage formation and the principle settlement. However considering in another way drives growth.
Per Bergström, recruiter at Kommunal.
– I feel will probably be nice with this election. It was additionally quick discover. Now it’s not solely the accountability of the elected to make it work. It’s all our accountability. The massive query to unravel for the LO collective is the extent of group.
Do you might have resolution, you’re employed with these questions every day?
– If I had, there can be no drawback. The problem is that each one individuals are completely different and now we have to continuously clarify why it’s best to be part of the union.
Per-Anders Pettersson, second vice chairman of Pappers.
– Now we get a LO chairman who’s far more public. Johan goes by way of the field in an excellent means. He has an understanding that completely different associations have completely different issues. I completely imagine he’ll be capable of see even us smaller confederations.
What do you concentrate on the brand new board’s means to work collectively?
– They arrive in with new views. However I really feel that everybody is loyal to the group. They’re loyal based mostly on the place they’re.
Glenn Chistensen, IF Metall Sörmland.
– I feel he’s precisely what LO wants. He has the reward of speech and has succeeded in bringing out Byggnad’s points very properly within the debate. Now he shall be a powerful and good voice for the entire of LO.
Amanda Lindholm
