“Spotify is going to find that a union deal is a competitive advantage”
"Fair play to them on this, they stayed out of it. They left it to us, which I think is the right thing to do," Catalini Smith recalls. "They haven't tried to stop us. You hear about in America, these meetings they have, these consultants they bring in. They play these silly games. And it's not really the way things are done in Sweden. They've become a bit of an American company in some ways over the years, but they've held on to some core Swedish values."
When three Swedish unions formally contacted Spotify to request a collective bargaining agreement on Wednesday, it marked the end of six months of activism for Henry Catalini Smith, the British head of Spotify Workers, the company's Unionen club. He tells The Local how it came about.
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