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This also includes the following sympathy strikes: * Ports will refuse to load Tesla cars * Post and package delivery denied * No office/factory cleaning *
by thecopy 3y ago
This also includes the following sympathy strikes:
* Ports will refuse to load Tesla cars
* Post and package delivery denied
* No office/factory cleaning
* Electricians won’t do work on office/factory/superchargers
- mcv 3y agoIt's what you get if you try to break a strike by hiring scabs. The unions will try to break you right back. Elon is going to have to hire a lot of scabs if he still wants to do business in Sweden. And if I'm not mistaken, business for Tesla has been pretty big in Scandinavia. I've heard they've got a significant chunk of the market in Norway. No idea if Sweden is the same, but I think Elon's confrontational approach could really hurt Tesla.
- pseg134 3y ago[flagged]
- mcv 3y agoDid you mean to write "failed state" there? That's a rather odd remark when you're talking about one of the most developed and well-organised countries in the world. But that standard, there aren't a lot of successful states out there. Tesla is (or was) huge in Sweden too. I just checked, and EVs are apparently 64% of the market, with the Model Y by far the best-selling model. I guess that's about to change if Elon keeps this up.
- sneak 3y agoThere are more people in Ohio right now than there are Swedes. The successful administration and/or failed-state-ness of Sweden simply isn’t a very big concern in terms of addressable market. This is to say nothing about whether or not Tesla has to care about Sweden; just that Sweden is a tiny country with 10.5M people and it probably isn’t make/break for any global enterprise attempting to operate at planet scale (as it seems Tesla is trying to do).
- rsynnott 3y agoThe American far-right have some weird ideas about Sweden. (To some extent the European far-right do, too, but its proximity makes the truly fantastical stuff harder to sustain.)
- hef19898 3y agoSweden is a failed state, huh? Interesting claim, to say the least... After all, some unicorn start-ups come from there!
- guerrilla 3y agoI expect this to continue to expand indefinitely. Tesla's going to end up being driven out of Sweden. Musk would rather (locally) bankrupt it than cave.
- worldsayshi 3y agoPerhaps the US can learn something about the power of labour unions from this.
- orwin 3y agoIt's illegal in the US I think.
- lillecarl 3y agoBy design, workers shouldn't have too much power. Then they might live an enjoyable life!?
- malermeister 3y agoEver wonder why?
- mananaysiempre 3y agoIn 1947, after a strike wave triggered by postwar inflation, the anti-union Taft–Hartley Act[1] was passed by bipartisan agreement over President Truman’s veto. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act
- Aardwolf 3y agoI hope this won't backfire and cause even more industry to leave Europe
- hef19898 3y agoOne thing, industry leaving Europe, is wastly overblown and mostly not true. The other thing, strikes, have nothing to do with any of it.
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- wasmitnetzen 3y agoSweden has huge vehicle industries: Scania, SAAB and Volvo Trucks. They just work with the unions instead of against them.
- oblio 3y agoAnd you know, Volvo-Volvo :-)
- jacquesm 3y agoYou mis-spelled 'Geely'.
- oblio 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torslandaverken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torslandaverken > The Torslanda Works (or Torslandaverken in Swedish), is one of the largest production facilities of Volvo Cars and is located in Torslanda on the island of Hisingen, about 12 km north west of Gothenburg city centre. The plant marked fifty years of operation on April 24, 2014.[1] under the motto "Increased capacity – for ever-higher quality." Are we talking about workers here, or about general geopolitics? Plus everything I've seen about Geely seems to indicate that they're quite hands-off, that's how the group became so successful. I'd be glad to be proven wrong.
- arein3 3y agoWhat is next, no energy and no water?
- dalbasal 3y ago... Waiters will spit in your burger. ... dentists will split your procedure into three sessions ... the pothole on your street. .. it will be enlarged!