The strike was initiated by IF Metall after five years of Tesla refusing to negotiate a collective agreement.
It is the first formal labor conflict called against Tesla anywhere in the world.
The National Mediation Office summoned both parties, but Tesla’s representatives quickly withdrew from negotiations.
The strike was then extended to include all repair shops servicing Tesla vehicles in Sweden.
Swedish employer unions have also pressured Tesla to cave and align with the country’s labour model.
Strikebreakers have been sent in, a tactic forbidden since the 1930s by agreement between the Swedish unions and employers. (Ie. not illegal but liable to make the entire country hate you.)
As noted by Atle Høie, general secretary of IndustriALL, an industrial union confederation representing 50 million workers in 140 countries: “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.”
Sweden has one of the highest rates of unionization out of the Nordics (which have the highest rates of unionization globally alongside Cuba and Vietnam) and the thing about that is you get sympathy strikes:
Tesla’s presence in the country is limited compared to those, but I think it’s fair to say their choice is going to be between pulling out or caving to their demands, because these kinds of threats to union power are not tolerated.
If you’ve seen news declaring the strike was called off and that the workers are all happy with their jobs: It’s misinfo, those are scabs, the strike is on and it could very well break Tesla’s resistance to unionization and trigger a domino effect in other countries if the Swedes win out.
what the fuck my best friend is currently playing through the mobile game cut the rope, which came out in 2010 and was originally a one time purchase of $1 for iphone and $2 for ipad. it’s now free with constant ads. it costs $10 a month to remove the ads. if you want to play fucking cut the rope without ads you have to fork over 120 usd per year. to play your toilet game without ads. i think we should start enacting greek myth style punishments on these app developers. they have to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity and the boulder is covered with ads and every time it slips out of their grasp and rolls down the hill there’s an unskippable minute of ads beamed directly into their brain as they jog after the fucking boulder
Just saw a video where theytalked about how black cats are still to this day the least likely to be adopted but not Bc theyre seen as bad luck. It’s apparently because they dont photograph well. Crying and throwing up what are we doing to our beautiful draculas…i hope all instagram influencers die
blows up a random stranger with a rocket launcher for no reason then falls to the ground weeping histrionically & receives the tender attention & support of everyone present
