πŸ‘€TraspSEπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό143πŸ—¨οΈ152

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American companies often think that European unions are just stronger than unions in Europe. They don't realize that labor and union laws are different.

Toys R Us tried the same in Sweden. They initially refused agreement and hired only non-union workers. But transport and logistics workers union and finance union started sympathy strike. Toys R Us didn't get deliveries and bank workers refused work related to company.

πŸ‘€nabla9πŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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When discussing wages and such people imply that it's a balanced situation, because if someone doesn't like the wage they can simply not work at the company. That is theoretically true, but we see pushback on strikes and unions. Strikes and unions are the _primary_ form of employees actually using their bargaining power with companies. What is hard to do individually, becomes much easier as a union when workers unite and bargain together.

I hope to see more bargaining and unionizing by workers. We need a shift in the power dynamics in the United States.

πŸ‘€mattcantstopπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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Unions are a good thing, definately right now when the competition from "slave owners" in eastern Europe, China etc will exploit workers and outrun competition that way.

For Tesla, with China's export of electric vehicle it would be a good thing to "set the bar" and prevent low cost workers from entering the market - hence securing Tesla's position in Sweden.

And that's what the "Swedish model" of working is all about, Unions "set the lower bar" for what is acceptable and what is not.

πŸ‘€seee-I-Told-youπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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Tesla built factory in Germany and hired thousands of workers while Volvo build new EX40 car completely in China. Just saying.
πŸ‘€art3mπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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In Finland, we’re celebrating the Wolt founders for paying so much taxes. At The sametime their platform has significantly disrupted traditional labor structures. The core innovation seems to lie in navigating around established labor laws and union regulations.
πŸ‘€kakoniπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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It's only 120 employees.. Come on Tesla, do you have to prove how special you are?
πŸ‘€willsmith72πŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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English update in sympathy strikes here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38191008
πŸ‘€VoxPelliπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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Anything someone does to stick it to Musk and his ilk of tech CEOs is such a powerful move, in my book!
πŸ‘€dinvladπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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In America , Corporate Interests and demands are taken more seriously than the Rights of Citizens or what the Law states. And our Senators and Congress fall right in line behind the Chamber of Commerce to make sure Unions do not expand and our citizens are denied their lawful rights to organize any unions. Corporations hold meetings threating loss of jobs if any organizing by any employees. They turn employees against each other. All this is illegal but our elected officials go along with the companies and they can do what they want.
πŸ‘€geo1999πŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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Related from earlier:

Workers in Sweden Will Expand Strike Against Tesla

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38190600

πŸ‘€ChrisArchitectπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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Blocking the mail seems overly aggressive. I don't agree with that tactic.
πŸ‘€Ajay-pπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0

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TLDR; The Swedish union of Service and Communications puts Tesla on notice of a sympathy strike, refusing to deliver mail and packages to Tesla in support of IF Metall's demand of a collective agreement. The action will go into effect on the 20th of November, 2023.

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IF Metall's fight is also our fight. By refusing to comply with the rules of the game here in Sweden, Tesla is trying to gain competitive advantages by giving the workers worse wages and conditions than they would have with a collective agreement. It is of course completely unacceptable. The fight that IF Metall is now taking is important for the entire Swedish collective agreement model. Therefore, our union board has chosen to issue a sympathy notice, says Seko's union president, Gabriella Lavecchia.

Seko's sympathy measures involve a blockade against the delivery, delivery and collection of shipments, letters, packages and pallets made by PostNord and CityMail to all of Tesla's workplaces in all locations in Sweden. This means that, for example, spare parts and components for the workshops will not be delivered by these logistics companies. The blockade means that the sympathy measures remain even if another company takes over the blocked work.

- We back IF Metall 100 percent in this important conflict. We are in an important period for the Swedish trade union movement and for the Swedish model. We and our members will do everything we can so that together we will emerge victorious from this fight for fair conditions for Tesla's employees, says Seko's contract secretary, Ulrika Nilsson.

Seko's industrial action will take effect on 20 November 2023 at 01:00

Notice of extension of conflict measures will be taken in the event that there is a violation of the strike measures.

πŸ‘€TraspSEπŸ•‘2yπŸ”Ό0πŸ—¨οΈ0