Elon Musk calls strikes ‘insane’ as Swedish workers take on Tesla
Strike at carmaker prompts sympathy action from dockers, painters and postal workers in fight over Swedish labour model
The guy who wants his employees to work 100h/week and sleep on the floor in the factory calls others insane. Yeah. I nothing to add to that.
“My guess is that Tesla will not remain in Sweden without collective arrangement.”
so … Tesla won’t remain in Sweden (lucky Swedes) – we already know Elon would rather shoot his foot than agree to anything that doesn’t benefit him personally and immediately …
At the end of the day, a billionaire's primary ideology is money. Signing the contract, after failing to defeat the unions, will make him the most money at the end of the day, so I suspect that he will sign it.
Unless he feels like exiting the Swedish, Norwegian and German markets, of course.
while corporate ideology is money, there’s absolutely no thought put into it – immediate profits always trump long term savings – new customers are gold, customer retention is anathema – we’ve already seen multiple companies that would happily block entire countries rather than play nice – and Elon has proven himself far more infantile and narcissistic than anything we’ve seen before
Elon: “Clearly, this is MediaMatters’ fault…”
It's interesting timing, right when Sweden is making a breakthrough with sodium ion battery tech. Especially considering that batteries are the only thing Tesla actually produces, and that other EV companies are investing in Northvolt (the company that's pursuing sodium ion battery tech).
There are solid reasons for the strikes. Failing to deal with the issues is insane, unless the company wants to Americanize the whole world.......
You think there's any doubt they wanna do that?
No, I think it's quite overt. I'm maybe being to mindful of the old Reddit hostilities for suggesting such things. Still acclimatizing to Lemmy even after all this time
Calling it names ≠ dealing with it, you overgrown toddler.
What are the chances of a company owner agreeing with a strike? If they did then there wouldn't be a strike
Your logic has no affect here!
The article actually doesn't focus on Musk at all. It was an interesting read, for sure. But the headline was a actually a bit clickbait-y.
There are plenty of shortcomings of the Scandinavian model of succdem-infested bureaucratic mass unions but they're still able to pull off something like this and make oligarchs shit their pants.
The lack of a tradition for political interference in labour relations and the large membership makes it much more politically expensive for rulers to intervene in labour disputes.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It is the first time workers for the US carmaker have gone on strike and on Thursday, Musk, the tech billionaire and chief executive of Tesla, made his feelings clear, writing on X, formerly Twitter: “This is insane.”
He was responding to a social media post about secondary, or sympathy, strikes by Swedish postal services that are preventing licence plates reaching new Tesla cars.
Marie Nilsson, the chair of IF Metall, said the strike was not only a fight for Tesla workers, but to protect the Swedish union model.
Other sympathy strikes include those by service and communication workers, who have stopped distributing post and shipments to Tesla.
Some commentators have suggested that the action at Tesla could start conversations at the Swedish division of Spotify, the streaming firm, which earlier this year pulled out of talks about a collective agreement, saying it did not believe that would “add any significant value” for employees.
Comparing it to strikes in 1995 at Toys R Us, which the unions won, he said: “My guess is that Tesla will not remain in Sweden without collective arrangement.
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