The article says that the unions want Tesla to sign on to a collective agreement. Tesla could just do that and give workers their place at the table. That would

The article says that the unions want Tesla to sign on to a collective agreement. Tesla could just do that and give workers their place at the table. That would end the strikes. It’s so simple. But if they want to do some convoluted things like you have described to avoid being a part of the social contract, at some point they deserve to suffer from it. There are no products without the workers who labor to make them, transport them, service them. Capital cannot will them into existence. Workers deserve representation.