Massive healthcare protests continue across Sweden, with 3,300 healthcare workers on strike, operations cancelled, and waiting times prolonged.
After an initial 2,000 Swedish nurses, midwives, biomedical scientists, and radiographers went on strike on 4 June, mainly over lengthy working hours per week, another 1,300 joined them a week later.
On Friday, the board of the Swedish Association of Health Professionals (the union for nurses and midwives, etc) rejected an offer from a mediator in the ongoing labour dispute in Sweden’s healthcare sector.
The rejection means that the union’s…
