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Sweden’s Tesla blockade is spreading — Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix chargi…::Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix charging points as the labor dispute rages on.
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The kind of class solidarity I can only dream of as a yank
Solidarity
Autocorrect got me, thanks
There’s a joke in here somewhere. As a ‘yank’ your keyboard won’t even allow you to write the word solidarity without changing it. 🤔
You really need to get the unions going.
Domn Salitaire
Salame
There are three battles wise men know not to fight:
- A land war in Asia
- The Finns in winter
- Swedish Unions
For context: Finns won war against entire USSR.
The Finnish still had to cede territory to the USSR but in protecting their country they did wipe the floor with the Soviets.
Yeah they even handed over more territory than the Soviets initially demanded, but they got to retain their sovereignty and reputation. It also led Hitler to underestimate the Soviets, leading to their hard won victory in WW2 against the Nazis, who had willingly opened themselves to war on two fronts.
So it’s a potential hinge point in that if the Soviets didn’t suck so bad in the Winter War or didn’t go through with it, Hitler might not have made what was debatably the biggest strategic error of the war.
Nope. They lost, but inflicted heavy casualties
Three days later, on November 20, the Seko union, which represents postal workers, will stop delivering letters, spare parts, and pallets to all of Tesla’s addresses in Sweden. “Tesla is trying to gain competitive advantages by giving the workers worse wages and conditions than they would have with a collective agreement,” said Seko’s union president, Gabriella Lavecchia, in a statement. “It is of course completely unacceptable.”
Interesting that it is legal to withhold mail. In many countries that would be a crime.
There are many ways to legally do this. They may just adhere to regulations more strictly. Where before they would bend the rules to help out.
They might just schedule Tesla’s mail for the end of the day and be extra “careful” that day. Oops, there wasn’t enough time to deliver their mail! Maybe after a few days of a customer’s mail building up, there’s a rule saying the customer has to come in and get it themselves. Following all the rules exactly will fuck up any system because they are rarely created with overall productivity in mind.
“This parcel is kinda sus and looks like bomb parts. Regulations says to fill form A123 and wait for ministry that no longer exists fill form B456. Whatever, regulation says so.”
I wonder if the difference is in refusing to deliver, but allowing pickup
But who will pick up, if nobody want to work at tesla?
Probably pretty hard to punish your entire work force. Next they could start boycotting you for punishing them. Or maybe their tariff contract may also cover this as legal strike action.
They don’t withhold, they just don’t deliver.
Maybe Tesla even can send their employee to pick up letters and stuff. Right, nobody want to work at Tesla. Well, tough luck.
I think if you don’t open the mail and only withhold it from being delivered, so not destroying it, it’s morally fine. That doesn’t say anything about laws though ^^
Worker solidarity is lovely to see. Good luck Sweden!
Thank you! We will strangle them out!
Proud to be a member of the Swedish metalworkers union!
Nice
Would love to see this happen in the US. Would be a total shitshow but very entertaining to watch.
Things only happen when they are made happen. Also nothing begins big. there are probably at least small pockets of resistance everywhere, even if its just small groups of people or singular persons.
Short time shit show, long term benefit for everyone.
This is what happens when capitalism tries to fight with democracy. If government fucks over citizens, then citizens ignore government, but if government represents and helps citizens, citizens will do “Tesla, fuck you!”.
EDIT: or when unions work.
funny choice of an image because that guy and his product got completely fucked by capitalism. that’s why he’s so pissed off here.
How exactly did Linux get fucked by capitalism?
This image is of Linus torvalds giving nvidia the middle finger because they are absolutely terrible to work with, money aside.
Please everyone get on board with this. Do not support greedy corporations!
Tesla, Amazon, Starbucks, are all trying to stop there workers from unionizing and giving them better life. You have other options, don’t give them money. This is because in todays world we vote with our money to make change happen.
their*
And yes, there are very few things most people aren’t able to get elsewhere from another company. It’s only a bit inconvenient at first, when you have to spend some time finding better alternatives but once you’ve done that it’s just as easy as before and you feel good about your choices.
I just try to act like these firms dont exist. I wont even open amazons website, but even if i did and couldn’t find something anywhere else, i would just consider that item to not be available for purchase anywhere. I also refuse to receive anything that I can see is related to companies like these even for free, if its reasonable to do so and even then reluctantly. Nestle is fucking annoying about this since they actively try to hide their name under other brands they have control over.
Unfortunately most of the platforms you use, likely this one too, are hosted on AWS :/
The big money maker of Amazon.
It’s impossible to get away from, which really sucks.
Yea, some things just can’t be avoided. But its still important to even try to make an effort, maybe some day there will be competitor to aws for example. I would also be kind of content with aws if amazon just dropped the webstore and warehouse business, which they might if it stops making money. That might drive them to make stupid decisions with aws and create more room for competitors.
Please let it spread
Good
Good
Teslas in Sweden are probably going to have a lot of flat tires in the near future.
Just the ones in the warehouses. Unions don’t get mad at the public. They get mad at shitty, oppressive, conservative employers.
The article does mention refusing Tesla based taxi service. Not sure how they are structured there but I do see individuals that own Tesla’s possibly being affected as a result.
conservative employers.
Depending on location and time, conservative might mean literal communists.
Or caveman, depending on how far back they want to conserve.
It’s Sweden, not France
I find it fascinating that they have no legislation about workers rights. I am curious if any Swedes could inform me how the “conservative” style movements are doing in Sweden.
We have legislation about worker safety and basic fundamental worker rights, but we don’t have a minimum wage and some other stuff legislated because that’s left to collective agreements with the unions
