Fighting the Unions in Sweden. Good fucking luck, better prepare to pack your bags and leave.
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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The Nordic countries make up five of the top six most unionized countries, with Sweden being in 3rd place.
Good luck beating them, Tesla! You're gonna need it.
As the articles says
Around 90 percent of employees in Sweden are covered by a collective bargaining agreement
And while Tesla doesn't have to fight 90 percent of all employess yet. If they're bringing in strikebreakers all unions must act to not let a prescedence happen.
Not only their own employees would strike, but also employees of suppliers and everything that is connected to Tesla so nothing will reach the company unless Elon personally swings into a truck and drives the stuff into his factories.
I don't know about Sweden but bringing in scabs is generally illegal in Germany. That is, you can't bring in temporaries, you can, of course, hire more people but then you'll have to keep them, and of course they can strike.
Amazon was quite successful keeping unions out here because the kind of people they employ aren't terribly union-affine, also, noone wants to stay at amazon anyway, but Tesla? A car manufacturer up against IG Metall? In East Germany? Tesla can either cave, leave, or get beaten into submission.
"If they start employing strikebreakers and actively try to break the strike, then they have mobilised the entire union movement against them. Not just the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, but all of them. Then the issue at hand becomes less important."
I can already see the German IG Metall union grinning and looking at the new Tesla factory in Germany. I would be careful if I were Tesla. Unions in Europe are extremely well connected.
Absolutely.
The Swedish Transport union, called "Transport" has already announced solidarity actions starting November 7, the actions include refusing to unload Tesla's from ships.
The transport union has said that they have a lot more cards to play if they need too, but want to keep it a surprise. But actions would probably include refusing to deliver anything to Tesla.
Fuck Tesla
Musk is a giant turd, his lackeys and bootlickers are even worse. He representes everything wrong with super rich. People should stop taking his shit and fuck him off whenever the opportunity arises.
I am 100% on the side of the workers and hope they manage to give him the figurative boot.
Fucking pull up Musky-Boi!
Good. The whole point of a union is to band together and work towards better conditions for all their members.
"But we don't sign those anywhere else!" is not a good argument by Tesla
The company is refusing to sign one, IF Metall has reported, saying that company claims that it doesn't sign collective bargaining agreements anywhere in the world.
Well then you fucking should.
Dear vikings, please rip them a new one.
Not the first time an American company has tried this :) https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/06/nyregion/in-brief-toys-r-us-settles-labor-dispute-that-made-headlines-in-sweden.html
Tesla seems to be about to learn some hard lessons about workers rights in various EU countries. lol
They aren't the first and they won't be the last to learn. Another hilarious example was Walmart trying to get into the german market.