Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the Swedish government's Transport Agency over a workers' strike that has blocked the U.S. auto maker's requests for license plates for new vehicles, business daily Dagens Industri reported on Monday.
The whole concept of sympathy strikes is really weird to me. My country (Netherlands) does not have them as far as I’m aware.
In this case PostNord has no real competition, but take for example the extrusion company that supplies to Giga Berlin. It’s CEO basically said Tesla is already moving to getting suppliers outside of Sweden. Which may mean that the company is losing money and needs to lay off part of the workforce.
It works because Sweden culturally values social consensus much more than we do in the middle part of Europe (lived in Germany, Sweden, Belgium*, UK for a decade each [*Belgium not quite as long]).
Germany has different, more restrictive rules, around sympathy strikes than Sweden - so … you can’t compare the two countries on what workers legally can do and can’t.
Back in 1998 100% of all union members working in Denmark’s private sector went on strike, and the non union members that tried to go to work was “encourage” to stay at home, by the not so friendly looking union members, that would physical block any entrench to their place of work.
People stayed home for 11 days and it was an absolute shit show but we got what we wanted, simply because the state of Denmark was about to go belly up.
Sympathy strikes happen regularly in construction though, even in America. Basically if the customer is doing something bad to one union shop, the others will show their support.
I was part of one a long time ago. The client company was refusing to deal with a complaint from one contractor. So one day all the other contractors took a day off. Just one day, but the whole project shut down. The union paid me for the day off, and the client decided to move on the outstanding issue. The whole thing though is that it shouldn’t need to become a big enough deal that news services take notice. Give a warning shot, if you will, not a major disruption for anyone involved.
The whole concept of sympathy strikes is really weird to me. My country (Netherlands) does not have them as far as I’m aware.
In this case PostNord has no real competition, but take for example the extrusion company that supplies to Giga Berlin. It’s CEO basically said Tesla is already moving to getting suppliers outside of Sweden. Which may mean that the company is losing money and needs to lay off part of the workforce.
It works because Sweden culturally values social consensus much more than we do in the middle part of Europe (lived in Germany, Sweden, Belgium*, UK for a decade each [*Belgium not quite as long]).
Germany has different, more restrictive rules, around sympathy strikes than Sweden - so … you can’t compare the two countries on what workers legally can do and can’t.
Back in 1998 100% of all union members working in Denmark’s private sector went on strike, and the non union members that tried to go to work was “encourage” to stay at home, by the not so friendly looking union members, that would physical block any entrench to their place of work.
People stayed home for 11 days and it was an absolute shit show but we got what we wanted, simply because the state of Denmark was about to go belly up.
What was it they wanted
Sympathy strikes happen regularly in construction though, even in America. Basically if the customer is doing something bad to one union shop, the others will show their support.
I was part of one a long time ago. The client company was refusing to deal with a complaint from one contractor. So one day all the other contractors took a day off. Just one day, but the whole project shut down. The union paid me for the day off, and the client decided to move on the outstanding issue. The whole thing though is that it shouldn’t need to become a big enough deal that news services take notice. Give a warning shot, if you will, not a major disruption for anyone involved.