VoxPelli

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by VoxPelli 3y ago
The Tesla employees are behind it. Maybe not all. Some because they are scared of getting punished by Tesla. Something Tesla has indeed threatened with as far as I’m aware.
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by VoxPelli 3y ago
It’s easy to avoid actions like this: Sign a collective bargain with a union and all unions are bound to leave you at peace for that agreements duration. So far two international companies have refused this: Toys R Us decades ago, eventuall
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by VoxPelli 3y ago
It’s the Swedish transport authority that ships the license plates and PostNord has won that tender and there is no way this will impact that. You can’t have a “should not respect strikes” clause in your tender, especially not as a governme
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by VoxPelli 3y ago
Not really, unions provides the workers with representatives in the management which essentially bridges management and workers and lessens the divide
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Unions in Sweden works closely with the industry to find good deals that makes both companies and workers prosper. Unions here know that if the companies doesn’t prosper, so won’t the people employed by it. So the industry and the unions ne
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by VoxPelli 3y ago
Klarna also had a breakdown with unions but ultimately signed an agreement in the last minute before strikes started to happen. What makes Tesla different from Klarna and Spotify is that Tesla has a global policy to never sign. So Tesla’s S
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by VoxPelli 3y ago
The postal workers doesn’t care what it is that’s delivered to Tesla, nothing is delivered, but apparently Tesla is only upset about the license plates So it’s all about the receiver, and it’s not the only reason one can have to refuse to d
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by VoxPelli 3y ago
But sympathy strikes goes further and now affects superchargers, offices and even Swedish suppliers to the gigafactory. Lucky for Musk that he picked a Finnish supplier for the Cybertruck steel…
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The strike has been ongoing for a couple of weeks but in the result of Tesla refusing to negotiate despite five years of attempts from the union. So it’s actually ongoing for +5 year
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For the planet: Not much better
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With a 7-10 year lifespan it’s only the initial cost that may be big, the cost over time is much less and the resell value once one upgrades also holds up much better over time
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by VoxPelli 3y ago
They are not refusing based on content, they are refusing based on recipient – two very different things. It just so happens that license plates are one of the things that gets blocked. Not because they are license plates but because Tesla
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And important to note as well: Swedish firefighters are not refusing to put out fires at Tesla workshops
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It’s there if employees want it and in eg many smaller companies there are no such agreements. It’s up to the companies and unions to handle. When Tesla has refused that for 5 years + have a global policy to refuse, then they are not handli
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by VoxPelli 3y ago
The Volvo EX30 will apparently be competitively priced and manufactured in Belgium for the European market eventually
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by VoxPelli 3y ago
We are quite capable of producing our own vehicles and batteries Volvo Cars, Polestar, Volvo AB, Scania, Koenigsegg, Northvolt and also new ones like Emily GT, Candella, Einride etc Even our own fighter jets, submarines and military ships t
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by VoxPelli 3y ago
Not liking someone is arbitrary and subjective Swedish unions are not subjecting Tesla to strikes because they dislike Tesla or Musk, they are doing it to ensure they sign a collective bargain
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Which is what it is in this case, a union which strikes
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Collective rights against an individual company* Sweden protects the rights of workers
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The point of the Swedish model is to avoid micro management from the state and instead of mandating work regulations through law businesses and unions can negotiate sector specific agreements that suits the very people and companies that it
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Arbitrary discrimination can’t be compared to organized union strikes?
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Volvo Cars is a company incorporated in Sweden and is traded on the Stockholm stock exchange. It does have a Chinese majority owner, but also large Swedish institutional investors and have to abide by Swedish corporate regulation and the re
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Both, unlike in the US the Swedish post office is privatized and handled by multiple companies, eg Citymail also offers postal services. PostNord has won the tender with the Swedish transport authority though and as such is the one they sho
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They have sensors that detects waves and adjusts the hydrofoils to avoid crashing into the water. If one would like to use hype words I guess one could call them AI-driven hydrofoils or something
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“We use an advanced control system that stabilizes the naturally unstable boat in just about any condition. Sensors around the perimeter of our boats measure wave height and feed this information to our Flight Controller. Height, roll and p
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by VoxPelli 3y ago
Josh literally started less than six months ago and is the first employee of the foundation – do you think that there are some papers ready here and now for him to hand out? Needlessly aggressive tone from you…
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Josh has quite the track record from elsewhere, having eg served as president for the very Open Source Initiative itself, so I do think it’s fair to give him time here
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What Tesla is currently doing is overly aggressive to the Swedish labor market model, so in that perspective it’s not disproportionate.
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When I looked at Avanza today it said 82%?
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Unions ensure that workers are not pitted against one another The one race to the bottom is workers from other countries within the European Union as the free market and movement within EU complicates things then.

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