Tesla fighting union(s) in Sweden (www.ifmetall.se)

submitted 9 months ago by magnus@lemmy.ahall.se to c/realtesla@lemmy.world

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Tesla is currently fighting against the union IF Metall in Sweden, where almost 90% of all metal workers are a part of the union. Sweden has a long history of unionization, it is deeply ingrained in swedish culture.

A strike was put in effect today, with 130 mechanics for Tesla shops.

The 7:th, the large transporting union will step in with a sympathy strike and refuse to deliver new Teslas in Sweden.

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[-] magnus@lemmy.ahall.se 5 points 9 months ago

Tesla is planning strike breaking, that is bringing in other people to do the striking employees' work.

While technically not illegal, that hasn't happened on a large scale in Sweden since an agreement in 1938.

[-] JackSkellington@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I guess Tesla execs thought US = Europe lol

[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I'm more surprised that this started first in Sweden and not in Germany (where the Tesla Gigafactory is located).

Still, this doesn't bode well for Tesla-Europe. Europeans are much more careful about labor issues than USA is. I don't think Tesla can win by playing hardball over there.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

7:th

That's new; is this superscript ᵗʰ in another markup format, Swedish ordinals or a mistranslation?

[-] magnus@lemmy.ahall.se 1 points 9 months ago

That was me writing a colon which didn't need to be there :-)

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