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.”

  • BlackRing@midwest.social
    70·
    11 months ago

    Yeah, and I’m fairly certain he bought the right to be called ‘founder’ of Tesla… From the founders.

    • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      11 months ago

      Then almost immediately bankrupted Tesla. Was their first near miss of going under.

      Story has been retconned on their website to say Elon fixed the car. That the Roadster wasn’t even close to production ready. He did neither.

      What really happened is he wanted to redo much of the looks of the car to put his stamp on it. They spent a small fortune tweaking the Elise body to make it look just slightly less like one. Ballooned their production costs and added a ton of delays. The original team was going to use the Elise chassis as it came from Lotus and people had already lined up to buy that.