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[–] 93 points 1 month ago (6 children)

You don't mess with the unions in the Nordics. They have each other's back and will fuck you over hard. When Tesla tried it they even stopped getting mail because the postman union was in solidarity.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    But now all strikers at Tesla has been bought out, so IF metal ceased the strike due to no strikers left... not sure if the other unions who sympathy-striked followed suit, but my guess is that they did..

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    As sad as it may seem, Tesla did kind of win that fight in the end. All the union employees were bought out in the end, and the strike was called off. Tesla operates with impunity in Sweden.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Also tons of Teslas on the road here. During the time they were in the news for getting torched in the US, nothing of the sort happened here.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    To be fair, their sales in Sweden have absolutely collapsed.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    In Norway a guy uniniozed a McDonalds in Stavanger, he got called in to the main office and accused of a whole bunch of nonsense so they could fire him, but he could document or refute all of it. Meanwhile the big shot from the union just sat there while he defended himself. Finally, the meeting over, the union guy got up and said: if you fire him, we will sue you until there's not a fucking cheeseburger left in all of Norway. And the McDonald's lawyers went pale, and that was the end of that.

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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If their chef’s union joins, they’re borked

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    So you're telling me there's a chance!

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    [–] 21 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Activision-Blizzard-King can try it. Tesla tried to screw over Swedes wanting a collective bargaining agreement a while back, and they ended up not getting their mail, electricity, or shipments of new cars due to solidarity strikes.

    Few things make me, as an American, happier than seeing American companies trying to push the American way of life on other places and getting a fist back in the face for it. If we're going to export American things, it should be stuff like absolutely ridiculous snack foods and wacky, wavy, inflatables that you post up outside used car lots, not the shitty culture and work practices that make everybody miserable.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    As I posted in another thread on this matter:

    As sad as it may seem, Tesla did kind of win that fight in the end. All the union employees were bought out in the end, and the strike was called off. Tesla operates with impunity in Sweden.

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