Luxembourg, 18/12/2007 (Agence Europe) - On 18 December, the Court of Justice issued a long-awaited verdict condemning collective action undertaken by Swedish trade unions against a Latvian construction firm, employed to renovate a school in the Stockholm region. The blockade set up after talks had failed on the rates of pay received by Latvian workers on the worksite is not a lawful way to force the company to sign up to a collective convention. The Court considers such action to be...