Thousands of Swedish workers are rallying behind 120 Tesla mechanics. The workers are boycotting Teslas until the company signs a contract. Even postal workers may stop delivering mail.
Swedish dockworkers are refusing to unload Teslas at ports in broad boycott move
Submitted 11 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to workreform@lemmy.world
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213157550/tesla-sweden-union-workers-boycott
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Sweden is a weird place where basically everything is decided by union contracts. There isn’t even a national minimum wage as there’s enough union power that they effectively get one in the contracts. Companies that try to fight it generally end up losing when they can’t do literally anything without a union blocking them.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
That’s not weird, that should be normal.
meekah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think Sweden’s Union culture is especially interesting in the way that they do cross-trade-strikes. Like this article mentions, not only the mechanics who would be affected by the contract are striking. Instead basically anyone providing a service to Tesla stops providing services to them until they submit to the unions. It’s really quite a nice system. I’d seriously consider moving there if it wasn’t so conservative in some other ways…
profdc9@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Aren’t cross-trade strikes a consequence of union solidarity? I think large federated unions in other countries engage is similar protests.
mundane@feddit.nu 11 months ago
I usually think of us (swedes) as very progressive. In what way would you consider us conservative?