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In what has been portrayed as the largest fight in decades to save Sweden’s union model from global labour practices, the powerful trade union IF Metall has been leading a strike across eight Tesla workplaces in Sweden for five weeks.
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.
The Tesla strike has attracted secondary action from eight other unions and is threatening to spread to neighbouring Norway, where Fellesförbundet (the United Federation of Trade Unions), the country’s largest private sector union, said it was prepared to take sympathy action.
The strike has gained support from transport and harbour workers, who have refused to load or unload Tesla cars in all Swedish ports; electricians who have refused to carry out service or repair at Tesla’s workshops; and charging stations and painters, who will not work on Tesla cars. Other sympathy strikes include those by service and communication workers, who have stopped distributing post and shipments to Tesla.
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I bet they are "insane" to him because they are supposed to be the most socialist white workers and how could they undermine him as the avatar of the white race at a time when he is locked in mortal combat with Chinese EV manufacturers
Don't they get it that if xi jinping is the emperor of all EVs that the world may not have access to the farting robot as a standard feature in new EVs?
I'm in gothenburg today for sweden's left party's yearly convention. Our party leader, Nooshi Dadgostar, gave a great speech which included talking about how we're taking on the world's richest man, Elon Musk, and she said to our boys at IF Metall and all the people striking in support: "Give him hell". Badass.
: "White people need to get together and fight for their collective interests!"🇸🇪 : "Ok."
: "No, not like that!"And I think no sane person would allow someone like Elon musk to exist 👍
Get fucked Elon! As a Tesla owner I will be boycotting Superchargers until the strike is over.
I know Teslas are meme clown cars on Lemmy, but in some places they're very common, normal cars to own. So to answer, yes I do actually own a Tesla.
I live in one of those places and normal people without 30k to drop on a car still treat then as meme clown cars
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/tesla-sues-swedish-agency-striking-workers-halt-delivery-105177679
Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the Swedish state via Sweden’s Transport Agency after striking postal workers in the country stopped delivering license plates
Tesla said it was suing “the Swedish state through the Swedish Transport Agency” because not accessing the registration plates “constitutes an unlawful discriminatory attack directed at Tesla.”
According to the lawsuit obtained by The Associated Press, Tesla demands that the district court fine the agency 1 million kronor ($95,383) to “oblige" the Swedish Transport Agency to allow Tesla “retrieve license plates” within three days from notification of the district court’s decision.
The popular support for the strike in Sweden is thoroughly 50/50 though. There's predictably been a major fascist backlash including strike breaking, but there's been tons of leftist wrecking too. Many leftists view the strikes as a succdemm psyop and you have to remember that Nooshi is a very unpopular leader. The Swedish left has become so Twitterized, Americanized and extremely online, that anything that isn't Bernie is seen as either a psyop, liberalism or nationalist revisionism. This is despite the fact that the Left Party argued for the complete abolition of capitalism only a few years ago, while Bernie has never done so in his life.
