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This is actually democracy in action. Worker unions are a lot better at making the voices of workers heard and actuated on.
by aaomidi 3y ago
This is actually democracy in action.
Worker unions are a lot better at making the voices of workers heard and actuated on.
- david38 3y agoNot sure you know what democracy is. Tesla is required by law to use the post to get plates. This invalidates the whole premise.
- cinntaile 3y agoWhat is undemocratic about a law in a democratic country? They can pick up their plates themselves for now, the lawsuit will decide what the law says.
- okr 3y agoMaybe being able to pick any other company to make the plates? For god sake, it is just a plate. A simple piece of metal with some letters on it to make everyone happy with traceability.
- cinntaile 3y agoGovernment contracts need to fulfill very specific rules to prevent conflicts of interest. This one company one that bid and is now responsible for that. If you want it any other way, the law needs to be changed and that is again a democratic process.
- frosting1337 3y agoYou realise, of course, that if another company was able to deliver the plates, the same issue would still be occuring thanks to Swedish unions being in solidarity?
- sbuttgereit 3y agoSo gerrymandered districting exists as law in a democratic country, yet would you call that democratic?
- cinntaile 3y agoI'm not following, no voting districts are being changed here? This lawsuit is about license plates that have a contractually decided upon producer and distributor.
- skitout 3y agoNot sure you know what democracy is... Democracy is not just voting for your MP, it includes unions, strikes and collective agreement If Tesla agreed (like 99,9999% of companies) with the democratically designed collective agreement, there would be no targeted strike. Strikes are one of the main democratic bargaining tool employees and unions have... including on key point of businesses.
- letmevoteplease 3y agoIf a company is legally required to use PostNord and PostNord can legally refuse to deliver mail, it effectively gives PostNord the power to control any company that wants to continue receiving mail. Regardless of whether they are using that power for good or evil here, I don't think it's a power they should have.
- einr 3y agoPostnord as a company is not refusing anything. Some of the workers for Postnord are on strike.
- frosting1337 3y agoWhy not? They're a private company. Isn't that usually what Americans are telling people, that corporations are free to serve who they please? But, more importantly, PostNord isn't doing anything - it's a unionised group of workers refusing to deliver Tesla products. That's how strikes work, and Musk's go-to course of action is to immediately proceed to legal action rather than negotiating and meeting the union's requirements.
- nomel 3y ago> They're a private company. How does a private company get the benefits of being legally required? That seems like a benefit that only a public company should have.
- philipwhiuk 3y agoIt's not really a private company. It's wholly owned by the government of Sweden and the government of Denmark.
- philipwhiuk 3y agoIt's not really a private company. It's wholly owned by the government of Sweden and the government of Denmark.
- hayleox 3y ago
- stcredzero 3y agoWorker unions are a lot better at making the voices of workers heard and actuated on. Then why in this case are they violating consensuality and trying to impose the collective agreement on the Tesla worker pool from outside?
- aaomidi 3y agoBecause workers having each others backs is actually a good thing? It effectively creates a powerful voice of literally everyday people who are working. Solidarity strikes is the real power of worker unions.
- stcredzero 3y agoBecause workers having each others backs is actually a good thing? Then why don't they have the backs of the majority of Tesla workers who didn't want the agreement? Are some workers more equal than others?