Imagine if Postnord’s union workers decided that they didn’t like something about the biggest hospital company in Sweden, and “sympathy striked” to prevent their medicine from being delivered. Would you be OK with that?
That doesn’t make sense. For it to be a sympathy strike, the workers at the hospital would have to be striking first. If the workers at the hospital are on strike, then the hospital has bigger issues than PostNord.
Well Tesla has done just that and gone and picked the plates up themselves. the Swedish courts just ruled that they must be allowed to do this.
They haven’t picked up anything yet, and the court only granted them a preliminary injunction. They haven’t ruled on the case yet. Also Transportstyrelsen haven’t decided how to respond to the ruling yet. They could very well just decide to pay the fine instead.
Not just trying, they’re literally strikebreaking, which is what prompted the sympathy actions. This would’ve remained limited to just the workshop workers if Tesla hadn’t committed the biggest taboo in the Swedish labour market.
“The union threatens not to clean our facilities. Are we then to work in dirt and misery? Is it IF Metall’s agenda to make sure we feel bad at work? If Metall and their LO chairman, who thinks it is better that we are unemployed than that we are better off without a collective agreement.
I mean they can clean themselves or have Tesla hire non-union workers to clean. I thought Tesla had great working conditions and doesn’t need unions. How come they can’t get their workshops cleaned?
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Your source is a Tesla fan blog. That’s not a source.
It’s not the government’s authority to dictate what the free market should do :)
The remaining 10% consist of the Tesla employees that are at the heart of this. They don’t want CBAs because they already get paid better than what the unions can offer and have better conditions, so they have refused to participate in the strikes proposed by the unions.
They don’t want CBAs because they already get paid better than what the unions can offer and have better conditions, so they have refused to participate in the strikes proposed by the unions.
The unions hence decided to force them into CBAs and got other companies unions to strike to try and force it when they didn’t participate.
Except that CBAs only set the minimum. This isn’t the same as a union contract in the US. Every employee still negotiates their pay on an individual level, so this is all bullshit.
Hopefully Tesla just goes and picks up the license plates directly from the transportation department and continues to ignore them.
That would be illegal, but even if it were to happen, the strike would just spread to Transportstyrelsen itself and no plates would be allowed to be produced in the first place.
Can anyone chime in on what might characterize the remaining 10%?
For example if you start a small business with your buddies, family or the like, it’s very unlikely that those people are going to demand a CBA from you. Even if you setup your own company as a freelancer then you will count as an employee with no CBA.
The head of the finance union Finansförbundet (also a woman btw) also recently stated that they support IF Metall in their strike. They haven’t threatened any actions yet, but that’s the one that broke Toys R Us back in the day. If this union decides to blockade Tesla, they would need to wheelbarrow cash in order to do any business, because the workers won’t process their bank transactions.
Well at the very least, the income insurance from the union would cover them for the next few years while they look for a job. All they need to do is to submit a monthly report that they in fact still don’t have a job. They don’t need to speculate about them finding a new job when they have them covered regardless. But keep fearmongering.
Also the union can very well find them new jobs. It’s not like the demand for mechanics who can repair Teslas would disappear. One of the many workshops that already have a CBA would pick up the demand, and they would then hire those mechanics.
It’s not the employers that create jobs. It’s the demand for goods and services.