The mail service isn’t refusing to deliver, the workers are. The mail service is just not allowed to replace those workers. The workers are free to refuse to service, it is in connection to a valid strike after all.

Yes the system is based on a truce between the employer and the employee. This is a truce that was effectively started in the 1930s after a couple of Union disputes ended with corpses (because the government was called in which lead to the military shooting striking workers). After that debacle both the employers and the employees decided they didn’t want government involvement in dealings in between them. To achieve this they must find common ground and work together. That is the foundation of the system.

It’s all based on mutual understanding that everyone wants the companies to succeed. It’s not an exploitative extortion racket by the unions. IF Metal has even been accused of being to soft in the recent past not negotiating strongly enough and getting worse deals than they could have. What is important in the system is that consensus on what rules we are to operate under is achieved. Something tesla refuses to agree to. Thus they break the truce that’s almost 100 years old. Then they do something that hasn’t been concidered proper for a equally long time long time (hire scabs and strike breakers). The does not take well to this refusal to sit at the table like adults. And thus the conflict has no other option but to escalate.

And the unions have far more friends to call in. Thus like toysrus before it is get out or sign.

They have equal protection under the law

Because the law has no part of the protection. The protection comes from the agreement between workers and the employers.

Under the Swedish system both sides of the negotiations want the companies to succeed. It’s a system where almost everything related to labour relations, from compensation to work safely, is handled through the negotiations between the unions and the employers associations.

Also very funny about unions taking no responsibility, they are literally responsible for handling unemployment benefits, out of their own money. So if they go around killing companies they would be shooting themselves in the foot.

It’s a system where the incentive structures are set up in a way that encourages both sides to cooperate to achieve the best possible results for all sides.

Tesla wants the rules of the system they are operating in not to apply to them.

That’s what this is all about. If Metal wants the standard rules of the Swedish market to apply to tesla. Tesla because they are either incredibly arrogant or incredibly stupid wants to avoid being a part of said standard rule set.

Thus the system that protects corporations in Sweden and guarantees a stable and almost strike free economy does not protect them.

This is because the entire system is built upon a mutual understanding between the unions and the employers. (BTW the unions are incentivised to keep companies alive and people employed because it is they who pay for unemployment benefits)

Tesla is free to operate outside this system. But then they should have no illusions about being able to access the work of the people within it. This includes the bank clerks BTW who have in the past refused to handle the financial activities of corporations in as a sympathy strike.