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Elon Musk's Battle with Swedish Unions Is Now Impacting Tesla's Charging Stations | The months-long battle between Nordic labor and the petulant billionaire has led to perpetual humiliations for th...

Elon Musk's Battle with Swedish Unions Is Now Impacting Tesla's Charging Stations

Elon Musk's Battle with Swedish Unions Is Now Impacting Tesla's Charging Stations | The months-long battle between Nordic labor and the petulant billionaire has led to perpetual humiliations for th...::The months-long battle between Nordic labor and the petulant billionaire has led to perpetual humiliations for the electric vehicle company.

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Nordic countries are the biggest EV market right now. I have no clue why this imbecile tries to destroy his own business by offending Swedes.
- successful social democracies scare the ever-loving shit out of the united states conservative rich. it proves they are evil, and their lies are as such.
  its why conservative media shits on those countries non-stop.
- He's probably worried that if he gives in then US Tesla workers will unionise.
  
  Didn't the president of the UAW say Tesla workers were on his list to unionize?
- Because he don't know how strong unions stands in the Nordic countries. I'm really proud of my sweidish neighbors!
  
  I'm not Swedish, but I'm proud of them, too!
- You know why.
  We all know why.
  Hes a right wing fashy control freak that thinks the peasantry should just do as they are told, and too far up his own ass to ever consider the possibility of himself being wrong.
  
  This is so spot on, it hurts. I can't even see the target for the dart, and it read in my head as though it were just inner monologue.
- I'm pretty sure China is the biggest EV market. There just simply aren't enough people in Sweden.
  The population of Sweden is 10M. A little bit more than the population of metro Chicago.
  As a percentage of population, EV adoption is extremely high. But the ceiling for the EV market is nothing compared to China.
  
  Not sure why you’re being downvoted. There are a LOT of Chinese EVs here. Volvo recently launched a new EV too that’s super popular.
  There’s also Volkswagen and Polestar of course. That said you see a lot of BYD, MG, Lynk & Go here. I don’t keep track of all the brands, my roomie is more of a motor nerd, I’d ask him if he wasn’t sleeping.
  In short though, the Chinese EVs tend to be really good deals.
  
  Nordic countries
  Also
  And from Norway
  Fellesforbundet also supports the Swedish Tesla strike by refusing to offload Tesla cars in Norway that are scheduled for delivery in Sweden. The federation has announced further boycott action to stop Tesla cars from reaching Sweden via Norway if no agreement is reached before 20 December.
  This fight isn't limited to ONE country
  
  pretty sure China is the biggest EV market.
  Only a market for cheap vehicles (and a few expensive ones, but they need to be large, so that you can take your luxury back seat and have your driver in front). If there's any country on the planet that really doesn't need Tesla, it's China.
- It is just yet an other case of an American believing every other country reacts the same as the US.
  Something something superiority complex.
  
  Can’t pin this shithead on America, bud. Sorry to disappoint.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
The company’s refusal to ratify a collective bargaining agreement with a small number of workers associated with the Swedish union IF Metall has led to boycotts by other regional unions, turning what should have been a quickly resolved dispute into an ongoing disaster for the electric car company.
This week, yet another humiliation was visited upon the firm: An additional labor union has decided to take action against the car manufacturer, and this time the end result could be the stifling of Tesla charging stations throughout the country.
The Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees, or Seko, published a statement Wednesday, announcing it would be initiating a “sympathy” action against Tesla over its anti-union policies:
Over the past several months, unions throughout Sweden and other parts of Europe have banded together to protect Scandinavia’s labor model from Tesla’s attempted disruption.
So-called “sympathy” actions or strikes are a method by which unions not directly connected to a particular conflict can express their support and put pressure on an offending company.
He has repeatedly expressed his disdain for collective bargaining and, during one particularly inspired bout of rhetorical bullshit, said of organized labor: “I just don’t like anything which creates kind of a lords and peasants sort of thing”—which is an amazing statement coming from a guy whose cumulative wealth rivals that of any feudal lord in history.
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Swedish Chef vs Elmo Musky
I know who holds the cleaver!

That's a pretty non article - what does that union have to do with the chargers?
- Try reading the article.
  
  I did, it's little more than the summary. It's mostly adds
  Edit: I apologise, there was a continue reading button hidden between adds after the related content section.....
- Nothing directly, but solidarity between workers can be a bitch.

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