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.
State agencies have to seek the best offer for their contracts ever so often. They bulk deliver via one company that needs to win a bidding against other companies. Usually that means a company that signs a contract with a state agency trades some profits for the prime service contractor. The contract IS a business contract. But the state agency itself is bound by administrative requirements to get the best deal they can, whenever a previous time-based contract with a company has run out. Either side would be in breach of contract: PostNord if they’d stop delivering (they don’t - PostNord workers use their legally guaranteed right to strike); the agency if they’d suddenly breach the exclusive bulk postage contract they negotiated.
I don’t think US state agencies operate that differently on that end? The difference is that workers in Sweden have rights that US workers don’t.
State agencies have to seek the best offer for their contracts ever so often. They bulk deliver via one company that needs to win a bidding against other companies. Usually that means a company that signs a contract with a state agency trades some profits for the prime service contractor. The contract IS a business contract. But the state agency itself is bound by administrative requirements to get the best deal they can, whenever a previous time-based contract with a company has run out. Either side would be in breach of contract: PostNord if they’d stop delivering (they don’t - PostNord workers use their legally guaranteed right to strike); the agency if they’d suddenly breach the exclusive bulk postage contract they negotiated.
I don’t think US state agencies operate that differently on that end? The difference is that workers in Sweden have rights that US workers don’t.