WORLD IN BRIEF : SWEDEN : Wage-Price Freeze, Strike Ban Proposed
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson said the economy is “falling apart” and that his government will resign unless Parliament bans strikes and imposes a wage-price freeze for two years. The plan also would put a two-year freeze on local taxes, rents and stock dividends. Some opposition lawmakers accused Carlsson’s Social Democrats of declaring economic martial law and advocating a planned economy when Eastern Europe is abandoning that approach.
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