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Tesla's Nordic labor crisis drags on as a Danish pension fund dumps its shares in Elon Musk's EV maker (markets.businessinsider.com)
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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 104 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Musk has previously called the Swedish strike "insane". His company has stood by its policy of not agreeing to collective bargaining and said that its employees in Sweden already have similar terms to what their union has called for.

He still doesn't get it, does he?

Having a union agreement is not about the compensation. It's about the right to negotiate the working terms.

His employees everywhere, do not have the right to negotiate anything.

They do not have similar terms, even if he pays more and makes pizza parties. It's not about that at all.

It's not about money. He has enough of that. The Swedish employees have enough of that. It doesn't matter what the compensation is. It's all about the rights to have a say in your own employment. He won't give that away, because he wants to rule like a dictator.

I hope that some day he will understand it. But I will not be disappointed if he decides to fuck off out of Europe altogether, because he's not at all fit to run a company here.

[–] Unsaved5831@lemm.ee 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And he said

I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.

By not having unions, he exactly creates the lords-and-peasants kind of thing.

[–] pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 34 points 2 years ago

There are no class differences! You're not workers, you're the same as me, the billionaire emerald mine kid. Why would you make yourself feel less by being in some kind of lords-and-peasants union? Wow I'm so smart!!

Fuck I hate this piece as shit and I hope he just dies soon.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Haha fuck he said that? The only way that could even make sense is if he views them as something lower than peasants

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He understands, that’s why he’s against it

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

X - doubt

He's acting against the interest of the company. The shareholders ought to fire him, but they can't because he has a magic majority rule in the company that allows him to control it with a minority of the shares. They tried in 2016. They should try again.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Preventing employees from negotiating helps companies

He just assumes workers will give in because they always have previously

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Wrong. Enabling employees to do their best is what helps companies.

Demotivating them by having uncertainty and nonnegotiable terms is bad for the company.

One man can not know what is required for a hundred men to work efficiently

It's megalomania for him to think that he knows best, and even if he did, for him to think that he could communicate what is best.

Musk has 110000 employees worldwide, but he still pretends to know exactly what each and everyone should be doing. No chance in hell.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You are too idealistic for an actual conversation

If what you said was true then there would be no need for unions

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe so. I think it's more a matter of company owners having to educate themselves instead of playing God towards their employees.

It's becomes very evident when you look into psychological interactions in companies. It seems soo unnecessary - until you look at the results. Companies that actively work to prevent demotivating behaviour also produce better results at the bottom of their financial statements.

Just similar to how violent behaviour resulted in people not working due to broken arms, demotivating behaviour stops employees from doing the job well. You can see it in the contemporary term "Silent quitting" which is a result of poor management. People do minimum work because they are only motivated to as they're told and don't get a say in how they do it.

Firmly no. To your last sentence. Unions don't just exist to push the price of labour. Unions exist because one man alone can easily be replaced with another poor shit worker.

Unions exist because serious workers actually like doing their job well.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Firmly no. To your last sentence. Unions don’t just exist to push the price of labour. Unions exist because one man alone can easily be replaced with another poor shit worker.

Which companies do because….

It benefits them

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only in the short term. It's not sustainable against competitors who does otherwise.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you make more money than your competitors in the short term then you can buy them out

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah. There's a cut off point somewhere between "making a profit" and "making a large scale company". The personally owned and personally controlled companies that are happy with turning a profit using whatever means they think are necessary will never be able to buy out the companies that are controlled by an elected board who knows that it is necessary to invest in their staff. Quite the contrary. The professional businesses buy out the smaller ones.

Despite Musk being extremely wealthy, he's still acting like he's running a family business in the most unprofessional manner. Tesla had a good run disrupting the industry being first with long range batteries, but the larger car manufacturers have caught up and they have the infrastructure to back it up and staff that will do their job. Unlike Tesla currently.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can’t say I’ve ever heard someone argue that the mega corps are the good guys and the family companies are the bad ones

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 2 years ago

In Euro scale so it is. The family businesses are the ones that steal from the tip jar, while the big companies are generally more lawful and democratic.

This is because of unions. It's easy to cheat one guy on a payslip. It's impossible to cheat on 100 payslips of which 80 of them are in a union. When caught it's easy to pay off one guy whatever is owed. It's a stupid bet to try and cheat 100 guys who have a union to pay for their lawyers even if it's just a minor mistake. Big companies in Europe need to play by the rules for their own sake and not create risky situations like Musk is doing now. Musk might be smarter than a car mechanic but he can't "outsmart" an entire sector of mechanics.

Of course, big companies might be bad for other reasons, like for smaller entrepreneurs, just the same as everywhere, but they're generally better for the employees.

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

I don’t care whether he ever understands it, but I’m totally on board with the “fuck off” part.

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

After Twitter, let’s sink Tesla. I’m in!

[–] AlexS@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Hilarious!

[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

Git gud

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Ooh that's a fun way of fighting.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dropping Tesla shares sounds like a good choice not only for pension funds. I'd trust they'd drop them even if they weren't joining the labor crisis

[–] bAZtARd@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And all that by taking massive profits probably

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I expect my pension fund to make massive profits so yes, hopefully

[–] muse@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

🤔 interesting, will look into this