• NovelPolicy5557@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    They can treat their employees well enough, that collective actions is not needed.

    (I’m sure I’ll be brigaded for this) From what I can tell, that seems to be what Tesla is doing in Sweden. The union that’s trying to get a CBA is offering 130% of normal pay for workers to go on strike (even those who are not members of the union), and they are threatening penalties for any union member who does not participate in the strike.

    Even so, the stock options that Tesla offers employees are apparently so good that only a handful of Tesla’s workers are striking, with most remaining on the job. I think stock options must not be common in Sweden, so the union doesn’t understand what they are, or how much they are worth. The union claims the workers are underpaid, but the actual workers seem to disagree.

    • ExTrainMe@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Ugh.

      Dude.

      1. Stock options are as popular in Sweden as in other places in Europe. We do know what stock options are… Sweden has a stock market since 1863.
      2. To avoid CBA you have to satisfy all your employees. Tesla tried a “divide and conquer” strategy towards it’s own employees, playing them against each other … and they got what was coming to them. So no. They didn’t try to satisfy all of their employees
      3. 130 mechanics are not “handful” it’s almost all mechanics that work for Tesla
      4. Tesla is known for terrible working conditions and paying below competition in Europe, so no the employees in Sweeden are not getting amazing deals, with or without stock options.

      Basically every sentence you wrote is either wrong, a logical error, fallacy, and/or condescending. It’s not brigading if you make an ass out of yourself.

      In short: To avoid CBA you need to pay all your employees well, and provide a humane working conditions. Tesla didn’t do that.