A gentle reminder that the union and Tesla are still fighting in #Sweden.
Translation by Google.
After Tesla's defeat in the Supreme Court, the company is now taking the issue to the administrative court. It is "sad" that the company is spending millions in legal proceedings rather than providing the same conditions as the rest of the industry, according to the ST union.
Tesla's legal battle to persuade the Swedish Transport Agency to break the blockade and hand over the license plates seemed over. But after the case went through all the courts and was thrown out by the Supreme Court, the company is now appealing to the Administrative Court in Karlstad instead.
โ I'm not surprised, but I'm still a little disappointed. Are these processes going to continue forever?, says Joakim Lindqvist, union lawyer at the ST union.
Since November 2023, ST and Seko have blocked Tesla's mail in sympathy with IF Metall's demand for a collective agreement with the company. This had the effect that the license plates that Tesla needs from the Swedish Transport Agency to put new Tesla cars into service got stuck in the system.
But while Tesla and the unions are playing a cat-and-mouse game with alternative addresses that the union then blocks, Tesla is pursuing the issue in the country's courts.
Now they are demanding that the administrative court in Karlstad force the Swedish Transport Agency to hand over the plates directly to the company.
"How the provision should be practically implemented so that the license plates reach Tesla is, according to Tesla, a question that the Swedish Transport Agency can appropriately take a position on," Tesla writes in the appeal, according to Dagens Arbete, which was first to report on the new process.
The Swedish Transport Agency does not want to break the blockade So far, the Swedish Transport Agency has not filed a response, but in the district court, the court of appeal, and thus also the Supreme Court, the authority's position has been that they cannot make exceptions to the procedures for Tesla.
There absolutely is an issue. The union wants Tesla to join the collective agreement in Sweden like all major companies and Tesla disagrees. There is room for understanding from both sides.
Which middle ground is there between being in a collective agreement or outside of it?
The only hypothetical i would see it being in it, but with "special conditions", think the UK pre Brexit. But that is not in the interest of everyone else in the collective agreement
There is lots of room for understanding... you give some and take some, that's how negotiations works.
It is a collective agreement. So it is not negotiated between Tesla and the workers directly. It is negotiated between a representation of the industry employers and a representation of the Unions. So the Employers side across the industry organizes itself internally what its positions are and the workers side does the same. Then their representatives negotiate changes that are valid across the entire industry.
These agreements do only leave small wiggle room for individual companies and their workers, because the collective agreements are by the very design set to define standards for the entire industry.
Think of it like the EU. If a new country wants to join the EU it cannot just make its demands on how to change all the EU law for itself. It has to mostly join the already agreed upon collective rules and then it can work together with the other countries, if it sees changes necessary. But these then dont apply for this country individually but in all of the EU.
Ok, fine, for example; Tesla joins the collective agreement and in return Tesla gets a guarantee for the pay-increase for the next 2 years.
I'm just sitting here wondering if you have any personal experience of union negotiations in Sweden? Because I do.
The major point of disagreement does not seem to revolve around setting the wages for the next two years, but whether to be in the collective agreement or not.
That is why the radical far right neoliberal ideologues at Tesla fight against it so much. Whatever the workers would offer in return, this point means whether Tesla would play by the normal rules and respect organized workers. It is staunchly against their ideology and that is why there is this whole situation. Tesla does not care about whether the wages change for the next two years by 0%, 3% or 5% . They care about whether they get to act like American capitalists, or whether they have to follow the Swedish way in Sweden.
And this issue goes beyond Sweden. Tesla is fiercely fighting unionization in all places. It is part of their core business ideology. In the same way wherever Tesla went in Europe they made a point of violating labor laws, because they deem themselves superior to European laws.
The collective agreements in question are optional to join though, and the actual employees it would cover don't seem to want it. Otherwise they could join the union and strike themselves
They do Strike. Would you please Stop lying?
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-strike-sweden-heats-up-nations-largest-union-joins-fray-2024-05-14/
33% is a Lot for a conflict that goes on that Long. Clearly everyone is very happy with their Lord and Savior Musk
Or are you a paid anti-Union-Shill?
So one third opted to get full pay to do nothing and two thirds opted to not strike? Not a lot of support for the union...
That's not how it works lol
So how does it work?
There's so many resources for you about strikes in Sweden
Or I'll just ignore the vague claim
You can actually ignore the whole thing but if you spread misinformation, people may react
well, I guess we'll never know what you meant. I'm sure it was very smart and well founded.
You are talking to someone completely different now.
Your name is funny when you drop stuff like this ๐