Company
Systembolaget Aktiebolag
Date of signature
24 August 2017
Signatories
Systembolaget CEO, International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) General Secretary, Presidents of the Swedish unions SPF Unionen and Unionen.
Key objectives
“This MoU has been agreed between Systembolaget and the IUF in response to shared concerns about working conditions in the global alcohol beverage industry and its supply chain for agricultural raw materials. (…)
Systembolaget and the IUF have a common interest in improving working conditions in the alcohol industry and its supply chain for agricultural raw materials for alcoholic beverages, including through workers exercising their rights to be in a trade union and to negotiate collectively as stated in Systembolaget's General Terms & Condition (GTC).".
Duration
Either party has the right to terminate this memorandum of Understanding at any time and without any notice period. Such termination shall be in written form.
Implementation and dissemination
Not defined
Review and monitoring
“The parties agree:
- to have regular meetings between the senior Management of Systembolaget and representatives from IUF including Unionen (the union representing the majority of workers employed at Systembolaget) both at national and company level. To exchange information on working coordination in production of raw materials for alcoholic beverage, specifically potential and actual breaches of national law and international standards. Reported incidents will be investigated by Systembolaget and the actions taken by Systembolaget will be reported back to the working group:
- these meetings shall take place four times a year (usually two physical meetings in an agreed venue and two virtual meetings) and an agenda will be agreed 2 weeks before the meeting;
- that the parties individually shall bear the cost of participating in these meetings and nothing in this MoU shell be construed, interpreted or understood as obliging a party to remunerate the other party for any obligation or cost arising out of this MoU;
- between these meetings, ongoing communications will be maintained through identified contact persons.”
Dispute settlement and sanctions
Appendix 1 describes in details the different steps of the process from incident reporting under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to the remedial actions : local union, IUF local Contact Person, IUF Geneva, International officer, Systembolaget, Sustainability Manager.
Main topics
working conditions in the supply chain