I think he said "wild" strike, which means a strike without union consent, and this is extremely unusual. The workers will not get any money from the union during the strike. They are on their own trying to get their union as well as their employer to start negotiations.
Anyway, the wild strike was met with understanding from Stockholmers who commute by train. We understood that a train driver should focus on driving the train and cannot be present inside the train to assist while driving.
We have an absolutely fabulous snowfall right now here in Stockholm. Everything is covered in a white fluff that hides all footsteps and wheel tracks making Stockholm look like a newly made wedding cake.
The subway trains aren't exactly stopped by leaves, but it does cause delays and cancelled departures. The reason for that is that the leaves make the the train cars glide while the brakes lock up, which in turn flattens the area of the wheels currently in contact with the track. Once that happens the need to re-mill the wheels to avoid damaging the tracks. Because of this, they run the trains at lower speed to lessen the wear and tear caused by the wheels, and thus we have the delays and cancelled departures.
It's a couple of things he's not explaining too much. 1. If it is the state, the city or the municipality who is making such a big deal, any company must get the chance to make an offer on it. If it's big enough, like in this case, they must accept offers from any part of the world. And most of the times they must chose the lowest offer. And the company making the lowest offer must usually cut cost one way or another. Here some companies were also disqualified for some reason, so there should some appeals. I am pretty certain the reasons are public though. 2. He said "wild strike" which is different from a normal strike. That's where the unions have not accepted it, but it's members do it anyway, which is rare. Strikes are more common. Like a lot of unions been on a strike against Tesla since October 27th, 2023 since they don't agree to signing a collective employment agreement (or whatever it's called) which says they accept unions and rules for vacation, salary etc.
Public procurement contracts have to have their criteria made public. They're not allowed to hold these auctions behind closed doors. If you own or run a company you can bid on any contract that's been announced through The Swedish Competition Authority's advertisement database. Any procurement above the threshold value must be advertised in the EU's common advertising database Tenders Electronic Daily (TED).
Sense Sweden is a very unionized country somewhere around 90% of workers and workplaces have unions and a collective agreement almost all conflicts are solved by negotiation. So strikes are rare and he talks about a wild strike where employees do it without the union and that's braking the agreement if they have collective agreement because part of the agreement is to not having to deal with random strikes. And by the way we do have snow its about 2 meter where I live and right now -16c outside so winter is definitely here.
That’s good that you have workers unions that listen to you and support you if needed. Sometimes depending on your union in the UK they can be quite useless. Oh wow 2 meters, I think it’s the same weather system that’s just left us. Huge band of snow swept across Britain. Now it’s all ice. At least if I decided to come to Stockholm during the winter I would be a little prepared. Maybe not -16 prepared but slightly prepared lol
@@dwaynesview I live quite far north of Stockholm (Jämtland) so it is rarely that cold in Stockholm or that much snow so you'll be fine. And whether or not the union is good is on a case by case thing i feel.
Londons population is about 9 times bigger than Stockholm. The Stockholm subway could really be considered a 6 line network because each line splits into 2 branches. London Underground actually has 11 lines but you could count the northern line and the district line as at least 2 lines each because of all their branches. I would say that despite the Stockholm subway network being smaller, a much larger percentage of Stockholm residents live within walking distance of a subway station, with a lot more Londoners having to finish their journey home by bus in comparison.
@Musta0011 ah yes, although one of them is supposed to become part of the blue line when its southern extension opens and the new line to the north of the city centre will become a branch of the green line. Each line will then have 2 branches at each end, forming 6 routes.
approximately 1/3 of the population within Storstockholm's (greater Stockholm) conurbation do NOT live near the subway or the commuter train, but have to take a bus to get to the rail traffic.
@@birgittae9046that's cool. It seems a lot more realistic to imagine those gaps being filled in. London won't see that happen within our lifetime. Hong Kong has really good subway coverage because it's densely populated in thin strips of built up area between coastline and mountains.
In Stockholm it has been snowing 2-3 days until yesterday and it was freaking cold at the recently past weekend. This week is warmer and today it's thaw.
As someone outside of stockholm the whole of sweden's trains are always late "Signal fault" "Electric fault sry all trains are cancelled even some not on that line" And the commuter trains are late because they are part of the swedish network where as the subway is alone
There are strikes in Sweden, but they are usually not very visible. A typical Swedish thing is the proverbial "clenching your fist in your pocket", meaning you may be displeased with things happening, but you stay silent and endure it with the hope of things getting better. When enough Swedes get tired of things, stuff happens.
The Union is kind of strong in Sweden and government so not regulate working conditions. The consensus on this market is that the companies negotiate with the unions. In general this works well and we have few strikes. Only when the companies ignores the Union there is big problems like with Tesla. Most companies here think that negotiations with the unions are less of a bother than government regulations, wich would be the alternative.
I live about 520 km north of Stockholm so I can't say what it's like there. Up here though we've had temperatures between 13-20 degrees below zero and a lot of snow, which is normal for this time of year. More snow will come tonight and it's supposed to snow until Wednesday-Thursday. I love the winter!! 😍
As someone with inside information about MTR (having worked there) I have seen some stuff. I did not like my time there, and I'm not here to defend MTR, but in the interest of fairness please read the below. First of all, all train operators get insane amounts of complaints in Sweden. The main issue is that the railway network in Sweden is very old, and the goverment that own this network is directly responsible for it. The government can "hide" behind these train operators like some sort of complaint-shields and, when the train operators fail in some way, you can just throw them to the wolves (the public) and continue to NOT fix the railway system. * MTR is originally a Honk Kong based company, so it takes its company culture from the Chinese. This means the organization is very much top-down controlled by the management, with micromanagement being quite common. Many Swedes thought it was a bad idea to let the chinese run some of our most sensitive infrastructure, but regardless, it happened. (It was a bad idea) * MTR actually ran multiple train lines, not just the subway. MTR ran the subway quite well, actually, and it was quite profitable for them. The problem was mainly the other seperate branches of MTR running the overall company into the ground. The main issue was the "Pendel" (commuter trains) that literally bled the company dry with how badly it operated, this part of the company was called "MTRP". * MTRP fell victim to especially the poor railway system that has not seen any significant upgrades since the 1960's. Every time there was a delay with the trains, MTR had to pay the government a very hefty sum of money as punishment. Most of the problems sorrounding the delays were not the fault of MTR, but rather external factors. * External factors could be cables falling down, people running across the train tracks (veeery common), leaves on the tracks and snow/ice buildup on the cables/trains. * The thing with the leaves is actually quite serious. During autumn, when the leaves drop, they tend to fall on the tracks and stick to them like glue. What then happens is that trains that try to go over them get much less traction with the slippery-wet leaves lying on the tracks. This makes it so that the trains can't stop properly, and can also derail if things go very badly. This is an environmental problem, not much you can do other than chop down every single tree. * The final issue with mainly "MTRP" was that it basically hired anyone with 2 legs. They started hiring copious amounts of underachieving immigrants, who barely knew Swedish, and threw them out to work. This led to sub-standard service for regular people, and the company culture at MTRP devolved into "you get special treatment because you are related to this and this guy". Most actual Swedes stopped working for this part of the company as it just became an unfair advantage for the other immigrants who had their relatives in management positions. I am aware that this can happen majority-Swedish companies too, but this was pretty extreme stuff.
We don't strike much in Sweden because the unions have such large bargaining power. There's this unique equilibrium called "the Swedish model" where industry representatives reach a consensus with the union for each industry regarding minimum pay, working conditions, guaranteed leave and such. This is re-negotiated every 2-4 years in a huge country-wide process to reach a new collective agreement for every industry. However, the consensum means that strikea rarely need to happen since employers and employees are in a rare agreement over the conditions. This equilibrium only came to be because of Swedens historically high union membership 😊✨️ . Now it's a bit lower and I think many young swedes take for granted the globally unique system we have, and subsequently don't join the unions to reinforce it. Join unions, guys!!!! Trust me, I've been a union rep for years and this equilibrium is more fragile than you'd think.
I live a little bit just north of Stockholm, almost by Arlanda Airport, and we have had very cold weather the past week (around -10 / -15) and a lot of snow, my dog who hates the cold is not happy :D
It’s so cold at the moment, but it’s no where near -10 or -15 where I live. The coldest it gets is about -2. But it is going to be -5 later this week. Aw I hope your dog is keeping nice and warm.
In norway trains and metros don't stop running completely because of snow but there are obviously cancellations and delays. Like today there will be less public transport than normal.Actually we have some trouble in the summer with train tracks getting too hot causing cancellations or delays. Also for having staff on metro besides the driver you will rarely see here. Could surely be useful on the odd occation but it's not like the driver can easily be interrupted as he/she is in a separate compartment. Won't expect this to have a great impact on public service in Stockholm either.
But Stockholms network covers a bigger percentage of the city than Londons network does, making the Stockholm metro more useful for getting around in Stockholm than the tube is for getting around in London, where a lot more residents need to finish their journey by bus.
The most basic infrastructures like public transports for example should ALWAYS be owned by the government. Foreign companies or government should not be able to control then, not even well intending ones. Instead of selling, they should ask others for tips on how to improve.... I fear what issues this may cause for the future of the country if we keep selling off all our assets.
They don't stop the train for rain and leaf but everything get delayed so much, during the winter the train doesn't work as that they saying that it is snow on the track that was the information they gives but this with snow have been more snow and cold winter for 40 years back but that time they had train that could handle winter but today they have bought train that can't handle snow,, cold, rain and leaf's. The next is that they never can follow the time schedule and they don't changed the online time schedule so you missing all other connection with busses and other trains.
Do you think it would be possible for you to collab with 3 star vagabond when you come to visit? I think that would be neat. Also never apologise for a good cup of tea ☕❤
I mean... If the UK still was part of the EU, it would've been okay for them to partner up like that... But I do not think they'd be so willing to do this if they were still part of the EU :P
If only. Most of them are Italian now days that's why they cant handle snow. If you look at our old trains they had snowplows on the front for a reason and was diesel fueled and not the electric ones that can't handle cold that's why they get cancelled a lot during winter.
YOU are welcom to Sweden, i hope you will come to Sweden. we use more coffie than the. I have been in London so i know how it looks. You looks real nice and good man. your better off taking a bus in Stockholm.
What the London Underground has is history. It's one thing to marvel at the art and architecture of our stations but there's no "Platform 9 3/4". When you head down into London's stations you can feel the history. Same way as we lure tourists into "Gamla Stan" with its medieval buildings. I'm not saying either is better, more that each has it's own value and it's easy to fail to see its beauty if you experience it on a day to day basis. That said, the air quality in some of the Underground's stations is downright horrible. Here in Stockholm you can escape scorching summer days by heading down into cool underground stations. 😂
Doomed 😂😂😂 clickbait deluxe. And the rest of Sweden we don’t give a shit because it is the citizens of Stockholm that voted for who the political party that will govern. The rest of the country is more concerned about the government lack of handling railroad in the whole Sweden. Since railroad apparently isn’t an issue that is politically important. Connecting Stockholm is a Swedish company, but its main owners are British Go-Ahead and ComfortDelgro, which is based in Singapore…sounds like a used car dealer in a shady neighborhood
I think he said "wild" strike, which means a strike without union consent, and this is extremely unusual. The workers will not get any money from the union during the strike. They are on their own trying to get their union as well as their employer to start negotiations.
Anyway, the wild strike was met with understanding from Stockholmers who commute by train. We understood that a train driver should focus on driving the train and cannot be present inside the train to assist while driving.
@mrnexton7559 Absolutely, I am a commuter in Stockholm. I totally agree with you.
A wild strike is also illegal.
Well,first of all your livestream was awesome and i´m looking forward to your next livestream as well.
We have an absolutely fabulous snowfall right now here in Stockholm. Everything is covered in a white fluff that hides all footsteps and wheel tracks making Stockholm look like a newly made wedding cake.
The subway trains aren't exactly stopped by leaves, but it does cause delays and cancelled departures. The reason for that is that the leaves make the the train cars glide while the brakes lock up, which in turn flattens the area of the wheels currently in contact with the track. Once that happens the need to re-mill the wheels to avoid damaging the tracks. Because of this, they run the trains at lower speed to lessen the wear and tear caused by the wheels, and thus we have the delays and cancelled departures.
It's a couple of things he's not explaining too much.
1. If it is the state, the city or the municipality who is making such a big deal, any company must get the chance to make an offer on it. If it's big enough, like in this case, they must accept offers from any part of the world. And most of the times they must chose the lowest offer. And the company making the lowest offer must usually cut cost one way or another. Here some companies were also disqualified for some reason, so there should some appeals. I am pretty certain the reasons are public though.
2. He said "wild strike" which is different from a normal strike. That's where the unions have not accepted it, but it's members do it anyway, which is rare. Strikes are more common. Like a lot of unions been on a strike against Tesla since October 27th, 2023 since they don't agree to signing a collective employment agreement (or whatever it's called) which says they accept unions and rules for vacation, salary etc.
Public procurement contracts have to have their criteria made public. They're not allowed to hold these auctions behind closed doors. If you own or run a company you can bid on any contract that's been announced through The Swedish Competition Authority's advertisement database. Any procurement above the threshold value must be advertised in the EU's common advertising database Tenders Electronic Daily (TED).
Sense Sweden is a very unionized country somewhere around 90% of workers and workplaces have unions and a collective agreement almost all conflicts are solved by negotiation. So strikes are rare and he talks about a wild strike where employees do it without the union and that's braking the agreement if they have collective agreement because part of the agreement is to not having to deal with random strikes.
And by the way we do have snow its about 2 meter where I live and right now -16c outside so winter is definitely here.
That’s good that you have workers unions that listen to you and support you if needed. Sometimes depending on your union in the UK they can be quite useless.
Oh wow 2 meters, I think it’s the same weather system that’s just left us. Huge band of snow swept across Britain. Now it’s all ice. At least if I decided to come to Stockholm during the winter I would be a little prepared. Maybe not -16 prepared but slightly prepared lol
@@dwaynesview I live quite far north of Stockholm (Jämtland) so it is rarely that cold in Stockholm or that much snow so you'll be fine.
And whether or not the union is good is on a case by case thing i feel.
Londons population is about 9 times bigger than Stockholm. The Stockholm subway could really be considered a 6 line network because each line splits into 2 branches. London Underground actually has 11 lines but you could count the northern line and the district line as at least 2 lines each because of all their branches.
I would say that despite the Stockholm subway network being smaller, a much larger percentage of Stockholm residents live within walking distance of a subway station, with a lot more Londoners having to finish their journey home by bus in comparison.
Technicly the green line has 3 so 10 lines
@Musta0011 ah yes, although one of them is supposed to become part of the blue line when its southern extension opens and the new line to the north of the city centre will become a branch of the green line. Each line will then have 2 branches at each end, forming 6 routes.
approximately 1/3 of the population within Storstockholm's (greater Stockholm) conurbation do NOT live near the subway or the commuter train, but have to take a bus to get to the rail traffic.
@@birgittae9046that's cool. It seems a lot more realistic to imagine those gaps being filled in. London won't see that happen within our lifetime. Hong Kong has really good subway coverage because it's densely populated in thin strips of built up area between coastline and mountains.
In Stockholm it has been snowing 2-3 days until yesterday and it was freaking cold at the recently past weekend. This week is warmer and today it's thaw.
As someone outside of stockholm the whole of sweden's trains are always late "Signal fault" "Electric fault sry all trains are cancelled even some not on that line" And the commuter trains are late because they are part of the swedish network where as the subway is alone
We got snow in Norrköping
MTR also runs the Elizabeth line in London but that's being taken over by the Tokyo metro this spring.
I thought the MTR sounded familiar
We have snow on Gotland.
There are strikes in Sweden, but they are usually not very visible. A typical Swedish thing is the proverbial "clenching your fist in your pocket", meaning you may be displeased with things happening, but you stay silent and endure it with the hope of things getting better. When enough Swedes get tired of things, stuff happens.
I wish there were some video of all the stations in Stockholm.
The Union is kind of strong in Sweden and government so not regulate working conditions. The consensus on this market is that the companies negotiate with the unions. In general this works well and we have few strikes. Only when the companies ignores the Union there is big problems like with Tesla. Most companies here think that negotiations with the unions are less of a bother than government regulations, wich would be the alternative.
I live about 520 km north of Stockholm so I can't say what it's like there. Up here though we've had temperatures between 13-20 degrees below zero and a lot of snow, which is normal for this time of year. More snow will come tonight and it's supposed to snow until Wednesday-Thursday. I love the winter!! 😍
As someone with inside information about MTR (having worked there) I have seen some stuff. I did not like my time there, and I'm not here to defend MTR, but in the interest of fairness please read the below.
First of all, all train operators get insane amounts of complaints in Sweden. The main issue is that the railway network in Sweden is very old, and the goverment that own this network is directly responsible for it. The government can "hide" behind these train operators like some sort of complaint-shields and, when the train operators fail in some way, you can just throw them to the wolves (the public) and continue to NOT fix the railway system.
* MTR is originally a Honk Kong based company, so it takes its company culture from the Chinese. This means the organization is very much top-down controlled by the management, with micromanagement being quite common. Many Swedes thought it was a bad idea to let the chinese run some of our most sensitive infrastructure, but regardless, it happened. (It was a bad idea)
* MTR actually ran multiple train lines, not just the subway. MTR ran the subway quite well, actually, and it was quite profitable for them. The problem was mainly the other seperate branches of MTR running the overall company into the ground. The main issue was the "Pendel" (commuter trains) that literally bled the company dry with how badly it operated, this part of the company was called "MTRP".
* MTRP fell victim to especially the poor railway system that has not seen any significant upgrades since the 1960's. Every time there was a delay with the trains, MTR had to pay the government a very hefty sum of money as punishment. Most of the problems sorrounding the delays were not the fault of MTR, but rather external factors.
* External factors could be cables falling down, people running across the train tracks (veeery common), leaves on the tracks and snow/ice buildup on the cables/trains.
* The thing with the leaves is actually quite serious. During autumn, when the leaves drop, they tend to fall on the tracks and stick to them like glue. What then happens is that trains that try to go over them get much less traction with the slippery-wet leaves lying on the tracks. This makes it so that the trains can't stop properly, and can also derail if things go very badly. This is an environmental problem, not much you can do other than chop down every single tree.
* The final issue with mainly "MTRP" was that it basically hired anyone with 2 legs. They started hiring copious amounts of underachieving immigrants, who barely knew Swedish, and threw them out to work. This led to sub-standard service for regular people, and the company culture at MTRP devolved into "you get special treatment because you are related to this and this guy". Most actual Swedes stopped working for this part of the company as it just became an unfair advantage for the other immigrants who had their relatives in management positions.
I am aware that this can happen majority-Swedish companies too, but this was pretty extreme stuff.
We don't strike much in Sweden because the unions have such large bargaining power. There's this unique equilibrium called "the Swedish model" where industry representatives reach a consensus with the union for each industry regarding minimum pay, working conditions, guaranteed leave and such. This is re-negotiated every 2-4 years in a huge country-wide process to reach a new collective agreement for every industry. However, the consensum means that strikea rarely need to happen since employers and employees are in a rare agreement over the conditions.
This equilibrium only came to be because of Swedens historically high union membership 😊✨️ . Now it's a bit lower and I think many young swedes take for granted the globally unique system we have, and subsequently don't join the unions to reinforce it.
Join unions, guys!!!! Trust me, I've been a union rep for years and this equilibrium is more fragile than you'd think.
He talks about subway , commuter trains and long diistance trains. But the subway is almost never late!!
I live a little bit just north of Stockholm, almost by Arlanda Airport, and we have had very cold weather the past week (around -10 / -15) and a lot of snow, my dog who hates the cold is not happy :D
It’s so cold at the moment, but it’s no where near -10 or -15 where I live. The coldest it gets is about -2. But it is going to be -5 later this week. Aw I hope your dog is keeping nice and warm.
OMG are you coming to sweden... Are you going to publish where you are so one can meet you ? Would love to meet you some time
In norway trains and metros don't stop running completely because of snow but there are obviously cancellations and delays. Like today there will be less public transport than normal.Actually we have some trouble in the summer with train tracks getting too hot causing cancellations or delays. Also for having staff on metro besides the driver you will rarely see here. Could surely be useful on the odd occation but it's not like the driver can easily be interrupted as he/she is in a separate compartment. Won't expect this to have a great impact on public service in Stockholm either.
We got the snow in Gothenburg ❤
Strange, I´ve been to London and Britain many times and never once have there been any problems with the transportation. Let´s hope for the best.
Very snowy, snow depth is expected to increase by 30 cm here tomorrow 🌨️
Where are you? 😊
Värmland
Yeah that’s the weather system we’ve sent over to you. Sorry guys lol! It only just stopped snowing today for us.
@@dwaynesviewYou really don't need to apologize for what the Atlantic throws at us 😂
3 Subway lines, but they fork. And they seamlessly connect to light rail and trams. But sure, it’s nothing like London
But Stockholms network covers a bigger percentage of the city than Londons network does, making the Stockholm metro more useful for getting around in Stockholm than the tube is for getting around in London, where a lot more residents need to finish their journey by bus.
The most basic infrastructures like public transports for example should ALWAYS be owned by the government. Foreign companies or government should not be able to control then, not even well intending ones. Instead of selling, they should ask others for tips on how to improve....
I fear what issues this may cause for the future of the country if we keep selling off all our assets.
I completely agree that’s the worst thing they did here also. Sell all of the contract to private overseas companies. It’s been garbage ever since.
Its snowy in sweden today. Yes
Thats a phimble of tea. A cup of tea is around 0.5 Liters.
They don't stop the train for rain and leaf but everything get delayed so much, during the winter the train doesn't work as that they saying that it is snow on the track that was the information they gives but this with snow have been more snow and cold winter for 40 years back but that time they had train that could handle winter but today they have bought train that can't handle snow,, cold, rain and leaf's. The next is that they never can follow the time schedule and they don't changed the online time schedule so you missing all other connection with busses and other trains.
Do you think it would be possible for you to collab with 3 star vagabond when you come to visit? I think that would be neat. Also never apologise for a good cup of tea ☕❤
Maybe I’ll reach out actually it seems he’s always around filming outside. And i will be vlogging. So could be a good idea.
The leaves stop Roslagsbanan.
We are on strike, but it must be announced by the union. This was just the drivers themselves. That is why it is called wild strike.
Wild strike is different. Strike happens though
8:50 actual proper snow train runs delayed light powder snow train don't come
If he is speaking the truth, it’s a *huge* violation against the Law of Public Procurement. The criteria must be fully public.
I mean... If the UK still was part of the EU, it would've been okay for them to partner up like that... But I do not think they'd be so willing to do this if they were still part of the EU :P
Good old Swedish-made trains could handle any amount of leaves and snow. That problem is new (25 years?) since we started buying German crap.
If only. Most of them are Italian now days that's why they cant handle snow. If you look at our old trains they had snowplows on the front for a reason and was diesel fueled and not the electric ones that can't handle cold that's why they get cancelled a lot during winter.
YOU are welcom to Sweden, i hope you will come to Sweden. we use more coffie than the. I have been in London so i know how it looks. You looks real nice and good man. your better off taking a bus in Stockholm.
They start November 2025
Somehow the biggest problem watching this video is the bad pronunciation of this fellow swede making the video... 😂
He’s pronunciation is off? Really? I thought he was from Stockholm. Or is he from Skåne I can’t remember lol
Connect Stockholm takes over in November 2025
Oh so there’s plenty of time for me to visit before the Brits destroy your rail system lol
We haw snow in Stockholm
But no problems in Switzerland
👍♥️🙏
we are not doomed at all!! craptalk
What the London Underground has is history. It's one thing to marvel at the art and architecture of our stations but there's no "Platform 9 3/4".
When you head down into London's stations you can feel the history. Same way as we lure tourists into "Gamla Stan" with its medieval buildings.
I'm not saying either is better, more that each has it's own value and it's easy to fail to see its beauty if you experience it on a day to day basis.
That said, the air quality in some of the Underground's stations is downright horrible. Here in Stockholm you can escape scorching summer days by heading down into cool underground stations. 😂
Doomed 😂😂😂 clickbait deluxe.
And the rest of Sweden we don’t give a shit because it is the citizens of Stockholm that voted for who the political party that will govern.
The rest of the country is more concerned about the government lack of handling railroad in the whole Sweden. Since railroad apparently isn’t an issue that is politically important.
Connecting Stockholm is a Swedish company, but its main owners are British Go-Ahead and ComfortDelgro, which is based in Singapore…sounds like a used car dealer in a shady neighborhood
Dont be an idiot as you are ....believing everything you see or hear!!!
unions and employers cooperate through Saltsjöbadsavtalet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltsj%C3%B6baden_Agreement
Ahh very interesting read, that explains everything. Very different system to the UK