A union in Finland was already asked to support by Swedish unions and they already agreed.
But only regarding stuff exported to Sweden.
Tesla in Finland already follows the agreements agreed by the unions and the employer representative in the so-called kolmikanta. Because it's the law. Sweden has more loose laws there.
Finland had a devastating and bloody civil war with whites and reds and a somewhat different history than Sweden regarding the labor market.
IIRC some Finnish union people have tried to export labor union concepts to say China but I've heard that labor activists are persecuted there.
Yeah - and i bet you that small concession is going to be a huge loss for hydro. I'm sure elon eithier is spinning up his own cyber truck steel line or using a different supplier by the end of the year in spite.
It's all murky because the reporting is done in a biased manner. Tesla has service centers and point of sales in Sweden. Sweden has no minimum wage because everything is driven by CBAs (they even lobbied to CBA supported unions from minimum wage rule of EU). About 130 mechanics from Tesla went on strike because Musk refused to sign a CBA. Tesla says 90% are working, unions say 50% are on strike. The other worker unions went on a sympathy strike in support of the mechanics. That includes dock workers for loading and unloading, postal workers for plates, and metal bashers.
This headline is out of context. From what I read, postal workers striking said that Tesla should not be allowed to collect plates themselves because it's a job of union workers. Tesla went to court and got an early judgement (that they can collect) while the case goes on. Don't really understand if they really went to courts to force postal workers to deliver and I think it's unlikely as the law is pretty clear.
The larger context is Gigafactory in Berlin. The workers in nordic region are trying to encourage them to form a union. This strike does not really hurt Tesla that much, but if there is a strike in berlin, they would not be able to manufacture any car for the region. This also explains tesla's stance. They cave here, and will have to cave in Berlin too.
The key player in this regard is IG Metall, the one most aggressively pushing workers to unionize on the entire continent.
Tesla is refusing to sign a collective bargaining agreement which is basically the norm in Sweden. This has been going on for a couple of weeks and garnered a lot of attention in Swedish media and social media. Sweden has a strong tradition of unionization which clashes with 'big American capitalism'. Swedish subreddits have lately had frequent posts with the comment sections filled with comments that more or less in unison are saying 'go get them, grabs popcorn' in support of the actions taken against Tesla.
The strike has been ongoing for a couple of weeks but in the result of Tesla refusing to negotiate despite five years of attempts from the union. So it’s actually ongoing for +5 year
