From my somewhat limited perspective, unions in the US and in Sweden are two completely different things. I've heard some horror stories in Sweden about small

From my somewhat limited perspective, unions in the US and in Sweden are two completely different things. I've heard some horror stories in Sweden about small local unions that act like the US ones, but that's pretty rare. Sweden has a system that is based mainly on negotiations between the employers and the unions. This has worked fairly well for 90 years now. When the big Swedish companies like Volvo, Ericsson, Skanska, SAAB etc have to make drastic cuts, this is normally done with the union on board and few strikes.