Fighting the Unions in Sweden. Good fucking luck, better prepare to pack your bags and leave.
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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.
Unionized and in the automotive sector. Would 100% strike in support of the Tesla workers. I'd rather see Tesla leave Sweden than have them succeed in this.
This is where the game of chicken is. The only question it boils down to is does Elon love winning pointless battles that require self sacrifice or does he love money? Itβs a hard question tbh but I think deep down we know heβs a money grub as a priority, in which case heβll cave and compromise to keep selling cars in Sweden
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.
I think they forget the difference between America unions and European unions
They always do. Walmart completely running against a wall in Germany is still getting a chuckle out of me.
And Sweden is two steps above Germany in that refard. So good luck to Tesla to not get stomped. I'd wish the unions luck, but they don't need it.
If IF Metall is stronger than the biggest and strongest union in Germany IG Metall, he's fucked.
I remember reading once about how James Cameron was all too happy to take millions in tax cuts to film Aliens in England, but then became a little crying bitch when he realized that English unionized workers actually protect their workers. He got mad that they wouldn't work through lunch or breaks, or work in his insane schedule or whims, or do dangerous work. Made me lose a lot of respect for Cameron.
I didnβt know this. Itβs psychotic to expect everyone to be on the same page as the guy who gets most of the credit, rewards and freedom of expression. Especially if youβre only job is to bring the coffee
There was an interview with a swedish spokeperson from tesla published the other day, they had no idea that what they were doing is against laws and contracts
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
It is a great argument. It shows that there is no point negotiating with them civilally. The only language they understand is force. So the strike needs to be maintained until Tesla ist forced to either agree to the Union contract or give up their factory.
They are finding the difference between a global corporation vs a multi-national corporation.
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.
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Do it fash. I fucking dare you.
Our "strikebreakers" will just wreck Tesla's factories like they did Kellogg's.
That is awesome!
Hah! Idiots. Typical Americans, thinking they can just ignore 'the poor people' like they do in the US.
Good fucking luck. Being a strikebreaker is among the most dishonorable things you can be in Sweden.
I'm in the US, and if someone I knew was a "strikebreaker" I'd be absolutely disgusted and I'd make that known to them.
Break them Sweden. Make it so they can never claim they don't sign collective bargaining agreements again.
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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.
Then donβt do work in Sweden, simple as that.
Bring out the strikebreakerbreakers.
We brought out Anton Nilsson once, then the strikebreaker ship Amalthea got bombed.
Wow, that biography is a wild ride, culminating in "his 100th birthday, during which Anton Nilson himself held a speech lasting for several hours".
Best of luck to the Swedish workers at the Tesla plant in any case.
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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 opens factory in space, everyone suffocates, Tesla argue βwell we donβt need to provide oxygen in other placesββ¦
Chuds.
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.
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"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.
I just love the feeling of union collectives banding together. Reminds me of a situation in Norway a couple years back where doctors wanted to strike: Now they're essential workers, and can legally be prevented from striking by the government, so the union collective said "lol get fucked" and put a shitload of engineers from the offshore industry on strike instead. The doctors pretty quickly got what they wanted, and everybody got to see why we have to work together across sectors.
tf is a strike breaker. A tazer?
Temp workers that replace the jobs on strike
You know, most countries that have strike laws forbid this. In Spain, for instance, if the workers are on a strike, the company is forbidden to replace those positions in a strike. Neither with temporary, nor people from other places. And the company cannot fire them. Basically it's a shackle, either you solve your strike or you are out of business.
Good thing Elon has never broken the law in full view of everyone.
Elon should build a factory in Spain. I really want to see how that works out.
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Fuck Tesla
Lieutenant Valeris : 400 years ago on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation flung their wooden shoes called sabots into the machines to stop them. Hence the word "sabotage."
How to get your factory burned to the ground 101
Good luck with that
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