Strike at carmaker prompts sympathy action from dockers, painters and postal workers in fight over Swedish labour model

Elon Musk has decried a wave of “insane” strikes focused on Tesla workshops in Sweden, as workers target the US electric car manufacturer in a strike calling for collective bargaining rights.

In what has been portrayed as the largest fight in decades to save Sweden’s union model from global labour practices, the powerful trade union IF Metall has been leading a strike across eight Tesla workplaces in Sweden for five weeks.

It is the first time workers for the US carmaker have gone on strike and on Thursday, Musk, the tech billionaire and chief executive of Tesla, made his feelings clear, writing on X, formerly Twitter: “This is insane.”

  • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    You either live off wealth or you live off income. If you live off income you are a worker and workers need to stand together.

    • Dra@lemmy.zip
      12·
      1 year ago

      This is, as I have described above, all well and good to say…

      …Apart from when you repeatedly support policies that further squeeze extant working classes, then have the gall to do this vague virtue signalling of “standing together”. It’s hypocritical.

      You are doing local workers in the country a disservice and the owning classes a great help to price them out of existence.