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It's all murky because the reporting is done in a biased manner. Tesla has service centers and point of sales in Sweden. Sweden has no minimum wage because ever
by ankit219 3y ago
It's all murky because the reporting is done in a biased manner. Tesla has service centers and point of sales in Sweden. Sweden has no minimum wage because everything is driven by CBAs (they even lobbied to CBA supported unions from minimum wage rule of EU). About 130 mechanics from Tesla went on strike because Musk refused to sign a CBA. Tesla says 90% are working, unions say 50% are on strike. The other worker unions went on a sympathy strike in support of the mechanics. That includes dock workers for loading and unloading, postal workers for plates, and metal bashers.
This headline is out of context. From what I read, postal workers striking said that Tesla should not be allowed to collect plates themselves because it's a job of union workers. Tesla went to court and got an early judgement (that they can collect) while the case goes on. Don't really understand if they really went to courts to force postal workers to deliver and I think it's unlikely as the law is pretty clear.
The larger context is Gigafactory in Berlin. The workers in nordic region are trying to encourage them to form a union. This strike does not really hurt Tesla that much, but if there is a strike in berlin, they would not be able to manufacture any car for the region. This also explains tesla's stance. They cave here, and will have to cave in Berlin too.
The key player in this regard is IG Metall, the one most aggressively pushing workers to unionize on the entire continent.
What I said and more can be found here: https://www.ft.com/content/d9317830-3b1d-4c03-9a8e-bb2073a8445e https://www.ft.com/content/d9317830-3b1d-4c03-9a8e-bb2073a84... Good context, but FT too reckons that tesla should accept the union and CBA, so take it as you will.