Tax money NOT at work

For transparency and my own agenda, I strongly dislike socialism and our previous government, the Social Democrats with the support of the Green Party and the tacit acceptance of the Left Party, who ruled Sweden for 8 years. At the last election, I voted for the current government.

The Workers' Education Union (ABF) is part of the labor movement. ABF is Sweden's largest student association with around fifty member organizations and around sixty organizations with cooperation agreements. The Social Democrats (S), the Left Party (V), the National Organization (LO), Sweden's Social Democratic Youth Association (SSU) and Young Left are some of our member organizations.

ABF's operations are financed for the most part with grants from the state, region and municipality AKA tax money. A smaller part of the funding comes from participants and member organizations.

ABF in Uppsala county introduced at the turn of the year 2023/2024 a 6-hour working day, to be compared with the previous 8-hour working day, with the salary for full-time employees maintained. The ABF department predicts that the shortening of working hours will make a big difference to the staff's well-being and at the same time strengthen the department's public education work and community mission in Uppsala County.

According to information from ABF, the business will not be affected by the shortened working hours, which in practice means that the business had too many staff before the shortened working hours as you can reduce the working time by 25% without the business being affected.

Which is easy when the business does not need to support itself but is financed with tax money.