Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the Swedish government's Transport Agency over a workers' strike that has blocked the U.S. auto maker's requests for license plates for new vehicles, business daily Dagens Industri reported on Monday.
The fact that PostNord operates as a “for profit company” is irrelevant. It is a state-owned and state controlled company - there are only two owners, and one of them is the Swedish Government.
The Tesla lawsuit is completely legitimate - the state-owned company is refusing to deliver license plates. PostNord - as the company - is responsible for its employees failing to carry out their duties, and doing so in a discriminatory way.
“Are you also saying the striking Tesla workers are representing Tesla?” The correct analogy would be if Tesla employees selectively disabled the cars of people it didn’t like, say if PostNord or the US Postal Service had an all-Tesla mail fleet. Tesla would be held responsible for that - as they should be.
Pro-union/Anti-Tesla commenters have invented/made-up/imagined a distinction between the actions of employees and the responsibility of the company.
The Tesla lawsuit is completely legitimate - the state-owned company is refusing to deliver license plates. PostNord - as the company - is responsible for its employees failing to carry out their duties, and doing so in a discriminatory way.
You are just completely wrong and I think you are doing it on purpose. You know just as well as I do that the workers striking is not on the company. Sympathy strikes are completely legal as long as they only target the company they are striking against in Sweden. Tesla being the only company targeted is required for it to be legal. But somehow you are trying to turn that into an argument for why it is illegal. You are completely delusional or just paid by Tesla to spread misinformation. You can disagree all you want with how Sweden operates, that doesn’t change how the country works or how this situation will be solved.
Pro-union/Anti-Tesla commenters have invented/made-up/imagined a distinction between the actions of employees and the responsibility of the company.
Another delusional take which you don’t seem to understand would be needed to be applied at all situations. That includes the striking workers at Tesla. In your fantasy world those workers would represent Tesla as well. You can’t just spew shit and then selectively apply it in the situation where it favours your viewpoints.
“You know just as well as I do that the workers striking is not on the company.”
You keep reframing this to match your view. PostNord workers are not on strike. They are refusing to deliver mail to one recipient, but continuing to deliver mail to everyone else. That’s not a strike - there is a fundamental difference between a union striking against its employer and employees continuing to work normally except for one recipient of its services.
As an aside, its interesting how quickly you went to the ad-hominem attacks. I mean right away, in your first post. Why is that?
You are using the US legal framework to understand a Swedish situation
In much of Europe striking doesn’t limit to refusing to work, but can be refusing to do only certain tasks or refusing to do them only for a certain client
In Sweden it is legal for the workers of a company to strike in sympathy with other workers at another company with the caveat that they can’t strike completely but can refuse to do work that would benefit the company the original strike was against
The fact that PostNord operates as a “for profit company” is irrelevant. It is a state-owned and state controlled company - there are only two owners, and one of them is the Swedish Government.
The Tesla lawsuit is completely legitimate - the state-owned company is refusing to deliver license plates. PostNord - as the company - is responsible for its employees failing to carry out their duties, and doing so in a discriminatory way.
“Are you also saying the striking Tesla workers are representing Tesla?” The correct analogy would be if Tesla employees selectively disabled the cars of people it didn’t like, say if PostNord or the US Postal Service had an all-Tesla mail fleet. Tesla would be held responsible for that - as they should be.
Pro-union/Anti-Tesla commenters have invented/made-up/imagined a distinction between the actions of employees and the responsibility of the company.
You are just completely wrong and I think you are doing it on purpose. You know just as well as I do that the workers striking is not on the company. Sympathy strikes are completely legal as long as they only target the company they are striking against in Sweden. Tesla being the only company targeted is required for it to be legal. But somehow you are trying to turn that into an argument for why it is illegal. You are completely delusional or just paid by Tesla to spread misinformation. You can disagree all you want with how Sweden operates, that doesn’t change how the country works or how this situation will be solved.
Another delusional take which you don’t seem to understand would be needed to be applied at all situations. That includes the striking workers at Tesla. In your fantasy world those workers would represent Tesla as well. You can’t just spew shit and then selectively apply it in the situation where it favours your viewpoints.
“You know just as well as I do that the workers striking is not on the company.”
You keep reframing this to match your view. PostNord workers are not on strike. They are refusing to deliver mail to one recipient, but continuing to deliver mail to everyone else. That’s not a strike - there is a fundamental difference between a union striking against its employer and employees continuing to work normally except for one recipient of its services.
As an aside, its interesting how quickly you went to the ad-hominem attacks. I mean right away, in your first post. Why is that?
You are using the US legal framework to understand a Swedish situation
In much of Europe striking doesn’t limit to refusing to work, but can be refusing to do only certain tasks or refusing to do them only for a certain client
In Sweden it is legal for the workers of a company to strike in sympathy with other workers at another company with the caveat that they can’t strike completely but can refuse to do work that would benefit the company the original strike was against