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By living and working in the U.S.. Most commenters here are wrongly assuming workers in Sweden have as little rights as they do, and probably just as exploited
by beirut_bootleg 3y ago
By living and working in the U.S.. Most commenters here are wrongly assuming workers in Sweden have as little rights as they do, and probably just as exploited as well.
- yreg 3y agoWell, you are the one wrongly assuming. I am from Slovakia, and we have strong labour laws and strikes all the time. The thing is that government services must be provided to everyone or (if enough people are on strike) not at all.
- beirut_bootleg 3y agoI'm not sure when Slovakia entered the chat, but I was responding to the parent's question of how could the workers (in Sweden) be prohibited from deciding whether to strike, and was trying to make a point that US commenters go by US laws which do not apply here.
- yreg 3y agoYou were replying to a user who asked me a question and you were explaining my views to them…
- VoxPelli 3y agoThe Swedish model makes it so that we rarely have large strikes, despite having strong unions, as typically companies work together with the unions rather than against the unions. In a way the Swedish model has found an equilibrium between company powers and workers right that has been very productive. Until an ignorant American enters the market and think he knows better than everyone else