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thewayneSweden doesn't have uniform labor standard like the USA does, not that our labor standards are truly uniform. There, they are negotiated on union by union basis. But apparently the unions are very good at showing solidarity...
Well, Tesla has pissed off the dock workers, and it's spreading.
From the Wired article's headline, "Starting Friday (last), 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." For five years, the mechanics union has been trying to get Tesla to sign a collective bargaining agreement, and for five years, Tesla has refused. They went on strike in October, and now other unions are joining in.
Snippets from the article:
--Since November 7, union members working at four Swedish ports have been refusing to unload Tesla cargo. Tomorrow, the blockade will be extended to all ports ... “We don’t want to unload any Tesla cars,” says Jimmy Åsberg, who is president of the dockworkers’ branch of Sweden’s transport union ... “We are going to allow every other car [to dock], but the Tesla cars, they will stay on the ship.”
--The Swedish Building Maintenance Workers’ Union will also join the Tesla blockade on Friday at 12 pm local time, “simply because the [IF] Metall Workers Trade Union asked us to,” says ombudsman Torbjörn Jonsson, adding that the union has around 50 members who clean Tesla locations. Four showrooms and service centers will be affected—three around Stockholm and one in the city of Umeå. “Their workshops and showrooms will not be cleaned.”
--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.”
Swedish media reports that Teslas are being unloaded at Danish ports and being driven across the border. Now, if the cars themselves are being driven across the border, then I would think the cars could not be sold as new. If they're being transported across the border on trucks, that's different. There's no doubt Elon is anti-union, he's been so forever, but the EU as a whole is very much pro-union and he may have to rethink his approach if he wants on-going success there.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sweden-tesla-strike-cleaners
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/11/18/0041200/swedish-workers-are-uniting-against-tesla
Well, Tesla has pissed off the dock workers, and it's spreading.
From the Wired article's headline, "Starting Friday (last), 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." For five years, the mechanics union has been trying to get Tesla to sign a collective bargaining agreement, and for five years, Tesla has refused. They went on strike in October, and now other unions are joining in.
Snippets from the article:
--Since November 7, union members working at four Swedish ports have been refusing to unload Tesla cargo. Tomorrow, the blockade will be extended to all ports ... “We don’t want to unload any Tesla cars,” says Jimmy Åsberg, who is president of the dockworkers’ branch of Sweden’s transport union ... “We are going to allow every other car [to dock], but the Tesla cars, they will stay on the ship.”
--The Swedish Building Maintenance Workers’ Union will also join the Tesla blockade on Friday at 12 pm local time, “simply because the [IF] Metall Workers Trade Union asked us to,” says ombudsman Torbjörn Jonsson, adding that the union has around 50 members who clean Tesla locations. Four showrooms and service centers will be affected—three around Stockholm and one in the city of Umeå. “Their workshops and showrooms will not be cleaned.”
--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.”
Swedish media reports that Teslas are being unloaded at Danish ports and being driven across the border. Now, if the cars themselves are being driven across the border, then I would think the cars could not be sold as new. If they're being transported across the border on trucks, that's different. There's no doubt Elon is anti-union, he's been so forever, but the EU as a whole is very much pro-union and he may have to rethink his approach if he wants on-going success there.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sweden-tesla-strike-cleaners
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/11/18/0041200/swedish-workers-are-uniting-against-tesla
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Date: 2023-11-20 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-11-21 01:23 am (UTC)Refusing to negotiate with a union in a country where 90% of workers belong to a union? Well, I guess you don't need to do business at all in that country, then. Give in or move along.
(Elon Musk is a terrible company boss. Workers are any company's most valuable asset.)
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Date: 2023-11-21 05:56 am (UTC)He's of this billionaire mindset of 'as long as he's doing it for the greater good, it doesn't matter if he screws over people.' I am of the mindset that yes, it does matter.
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Date: 2023-11-21 06:25 am (UTC)Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2023-11-21 04:24 pm (UTC)Other countries should definitely join
I still remember the days when this man was seen as pure genius and saint savior of all the humankind
Then suddenly he turned into THIS:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-musk-safety/
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Date: 2023-11-26 10:58 pm (UTC)He has some financial savvy in that he has the money to wiggle in on the ground floor and invest well. His parents owned an opal mine in South Africa, so has born with golden diapers on. He didn't invent Tesla, he provided lots of funding to the investors then booted them out when he wasn't getting his way. He's just a money man and no where near as smart as he thinks he is: he believes that because he has all this money that he MUST be smart, but there's an old saying that it's easier to turn $1,000,000 into $2,000,000 than $1 into $1,000,000 even though the amount of increase is the same. He fails to see this.
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Date: 2023-11-22 11:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-11-26 11:01 pm (UTC)I think the system has grown to be too strongly expectant for money in the form of campaign donations for that to ever happen. If somehow we ever got to a public-funded elections, then perhaps.