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Sweden: Tesla employees prepare strike as management says negotiations not in their business model (www.industriall-union.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the past, Tesla’s owner, Elon Musk, has publicly threatened workers with retaliation if they were to form a union. "Elon Musk’s business model is to avoid respecting human rights. Now he is taken on by one of our strongest unions. We must defeat the Tesla business model, and Sweden is the best place to start."

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Context from a publicly funded German TV station, ZDF, retrieved from their teletext:

“We have negotiated for a long time with Tesla regarding a wage agreement – without success. No we see no way other than a strike,” says the union IF Metall.

The strike would impact 120 engineers in seven plants. Wage agreements form the basis of the Swedish labour market and cover almost 90% of employees.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why build the plant there if they can’t conform to the work culture or provide a decent wage? That seems like an odd decision.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Musk is an idiot who likes to turn billions of dollars into a dumpster fire? I feel like we're past the point of finding sound logic in the actions of his companies.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I feel like Americans have trouble accepting that culture is different in other places.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Out-of-touch billionaires especially!