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Re:Tesla Sweden strike update: Tesla comments, sympathy stri... by TraspSE on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @11:04AM (#38192338)
You do know that 90% of Swedish workers are covered by collective agreements, right? While the unions have lost members over the last few decades, about 70% of the population is still members of a union. As such, the number 0.01% only proves your complete ignorance in this matter. Sweden isn't the US and the behavior of the unions isn't comparable to that of the US narrative - nor are the rules and customs of our nation.

The 0.01% is in this situation the foreign CEOs while the 99.9% is the actual population. Your made the perfect argument in favor of the unions, by sheer ignorance.

PS. The lost in members is likely due to the fact that those who isn't unionized reap most of the benefits anyway. Employers usually sign collective agreements voluntarily as it usually benefits both employer and employees. The numbers would likely go back up if they didn't.

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Re:Tesla Sweden strike update: Tesla comments, sympathy stri... by ApolloFortyNine on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @01:46PM (#38195007)
>Your made the perfect argument in favor of the unions, by sheer ignorance.

What percentage of swedes are in the port workers union that apparently decides what can be imported into the country?

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Re:Tesla Sweden strike update: Tesla comments, sympathy stri... by TraspSE on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @02:04PM (#38195279)
The members of the Transport union currently sympathy striking in the harbors don't dictate what's allowed to be imported, there's just no-one that's willing to unload cars of this specific brand before the ship has to leave again - there's a difference. Tesla could try to import them by other means, if they can find a way that does not need any intervention by labor that is. The argument that dockworkers single-handedly is deciding what is allowed to be imported is false to begin with and the number of members in that specific union is therefore irrelevant.

So far there's five different unions (I think) who's about the join the strike because this conflict affect the whole of Sweden, so to calculate how many individuals that are currently involved and actively support these actions you'd have to include all electricians, maintenance workers, postal service employees and so on as well (the list is growing rapidly).

As the pressure will be incrementally increased until Tesla realize that they have the whole nation against them you would pretty soon have to include the full 70% of the working population to calculate how many individuals that are actively supporting this action.

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