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Sweden’s Tesla blockade is spreading — Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix chargi…::Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix charging points as the labor dispute rages on.
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The kind of class solidarity I can only dream of as a yank
There are three battles wise men know not to fight:
- A land war in Asia
- The Finns in winter
- Swedish Unions
Napoleon learned the hard way
Three days later, on November 20, the Seko union, which represents postal workers, will stop delivering letters, spare parts, and pallets to all of Tesla’s addresses in Sweden. “Tesla is trying to gain competitive advantages by giving the workers worse wages and conditions than they would have with a collective agreement,” said Seko’s union president, Gabriella Lavecchia, in a statement. “It is of course completely unacceptable.”
Interesting that it is legal to withhold mail. In many countries that would be a crime.
There are many ways to legally do this. They may just adhere to regulations more strictly. Where before they would bend the rules to help out.
They might just schedule Tesla’s mail for the end of the day and be extra “careful” that day. Oops, there wasn’t enough time to deliver their mail! Maybe after a few days of a customer’s mail building up, there’s a rule saying the customer has to come in and get it themselves. Following all the rules exactly will fuck up any system because they are rarely created with overall productivity in mind.
Probably pretty hard to punish your entire work force. Next they could start boycotting you for punishing them. Or maybe their tariff contract may also cover this as legal strike action.
I wonder if the difference is in refusing to deliver, but allowing pickup
But who will pick up, if nobody want to work at tesla?
As a Dane I’m bloody embarrassed if Danish unionised workers are unloading the cars there. They should bloody strike with their Nordic brothers and sisters.
Norwegian dock workers are joining the swedes at least. Even though Tesla in Norway is unionized
Proud to be a member of the Swedish metalworkers union!
Black metal or death metal workers? 🤘🤘
We are music agnostic, need to keep our eyes on the ball and not descend into the madness that is metal genre debates.
Obviously not dead metal workers, they have the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
Like Ironworkers, steelworkers or tinbenders? They are all separate unions here in the US though all three are AFL-CIO.
If anyone is wondering, Ironworkers are erectors, steelworkers work in foundries and steel mills and tinbenders are sheet metal guys. Roughly.
We are quite diverse and do not conform to the old guilds, we are the union of the industry union and the metal union since 2006.
Everything from miners, pastics, medical equipment, industrial chemistry, glassmakers, autobody, forgeworkers to locksmiths and metal shops.
Nice
Waiting for the “damn commies” comments.
If The Swedes are commies then just call me Comradesson!
- an American who collaborates with our office in Sweden.
Kamratsson in Swedish.
Fun fact: In Sweden it is common use the phrase “Work comrade” (arbetskamrat) to refer to your colleagues.
Dude what the actual fuck are you saying, almost the entirety of lemmys user base is extremely left and pro communism and socialism. In fact, certain parts are so communist, they got defederated. And you’ll see what people call “tankies” everywhere. Lemmy is the epitome of leftist thinking and ideals. What a silly comment to make, here, of all places. It would make sense on twitter
Edit: this comment would be legit on Facebook too
Why do you think it’s so radically left wing/communist here? IDK if you’ve ever seen GAB, but it feels like that for liberals.
Linkin is the utopia of liberal social media.
You’re compared to all your peers, in the entire industry #globalization
You’re never not applying for a new position. #gottagetthemgains
Work/life coaches with any influence have their followers looking like guppies, mouth open, pushing their way to the front, just waiting for their food. I’ve never seen boots licked to a polish before but **got.damn. **#trickledown
All in grindcore, no time off, work life balance? work IS life. #hereditarykneepads #itsnitslaveryifitsachoice
It’s all the worst parts of work and none of the fun of social media. I don’t know why anyone uses Linkedin at all. There are better ways at self-flagellation.
Nothing you listed is liberal or left wing about LinkedIn, I mean I do fucking hate it too and you’re kind of forced to use it if you want to reach the upper echelons of corporate America and some companies will straight up just make you one without your permission which in turn will make your personal information available to anyone with a search engine.
LinkedIn is used to get jobs and chat with former coworkers. You are just looking at the public posts. It’s like how Facebook is a cesspool publicly, but your private chats with your network may be normal.
Please everyone get on board with this. Do not support greedy corporations!
Tesla, Amazon, Starbucks, are all trying to stop there workers from unionizing and giving them better life. You have other options, don’t give them money. This is because in todays world we vote with our money to make change happen.
I just try to act like these firms dont exist. I wont even open amazons website, but even if i did and couldn’t find something anywhere else, i would just consider that item to not be available for purchase anywhere. I also refuse to receive anything that I can see is related to companies like these even for free, if its reasonable to do so and even then reluctantly. Nestle is fucking annoying about this since they actively try to hide their name under other brands they have control over.
Will someone please give me the cliffs notes on how Tesla has pissed off the Swedes?
Reading the article, it seems they do not have basic minimum wages set federally and collective agreements are the basis in all workplaces.
I have to wonder if Tesla will just find other ways to get the product into the country instead. Unconfirmed local reports say that the cars are being unloaded in Danish ports then driven into Sweden.
Toys are Us refused to sign a collective agreement in the mid 90s but was convinced to sign after similar strike actions.
So it seems Sweden might still have a strong union environment and will be able to affect public sentiment about Tesla in the long term as they even mention people refusing services from Tesla based taxis.
Would love to see this happen in the US. Would be a total shitshow but very entertaining to watch.
Isn’t unionizing a crime in some states or somesuch?
In some ways I’m surprised by the confusing name of right to work states which turns out to be really easy to fire states.
Short time shit show, long term benefit for everyone.
Not legal, unfortunately.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft–Hartley_Act
The Taft–Hartley Act amended the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), adding new restrictions on union actions and designating new union-specific unfair labor practices. Among the practices prohibited by the Taft–Hartley act are jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns.
That is disappointing, but not surprising.
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