The labor dispute over Tesla’s refusal to sign a collective wage agreement in Sweden has escalated into a dramatic labor battle.
Unions representing multiple industries announced this week that they would join the strike in solidarity with IF Metall, the Tesla mechanics’ trade union.
The standoff started in late October with a walkout led by IF Metall.
In Sweden, which doesn’t have minimum wage legislation for workers, about 90% of employees are covered by collective agreements involving unions and employers.
IF Metall describes the agreements as “the backbone of the Swedish model” and said it’s been trying to negotiate one with Tesla for the last five years.
The union said Tesla wages are below the industry average in Sweden, and it wants to secure better pensions and insurance guarantees.
If only American workers had this kind of solidarity and stood up for themselves.
Nope all we get is “I’ll be damned if the guy flipping burgers makes as much as me!”.
I’ve never heard a person express this sentiment
My father and numerous family members of mine have expressed it verbatim, count yourself lucky
There’s a part of society fully lost to crab mentality
I grew up in crab land, and I wish I just meant Maryland’s delightful seafood specialty.
Walk like crabs, look like people . .
It’s a Midwest US chant by this point.
Then you haven’t been listening
I think that’s a reference to the meme that was like “I will be damned if a burger flipper makes as much as my skilled labor of filling boxes at Amazon.”
Solidarity strikes aren’t legal here
haha
Vikings don’t fuck around lol
Labor has a modicum of self respect in Sweden, it’s nice to see an example being set by a group other than the very most blatantly abused, such as our nurses and automotive in the states.
something very funny about dockworkers being the holdup here. we need to go back to sea power as might
Are you suggesting that America use its Navy to enforce, by force, a resolution of the labor dispute in favor of Tesla?
This isn’t the 1700s, you know.
I don’t think that is what they are saying…
Funny, I still don’t know what they’re trying to say though.
They’re saying that dock workers in the modern world don’t hold nearly as much power as they did before the rise of personal automobiles and saying (I’m guessing in jest) that we should go back to that time point.
Funny, I still don’t know what they’re trying to say though.
