Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla brand cars

Re:Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla ... by Gud on Friday November 10, 2023 @09:39AM (#38219389)

That’s strange, more or less all countries that are wealthy have a unionized workforce.

And by wealthy countries, I don’t mean countries where a select few have all the money and power and the working man is struggling.

I would absolutely prefer to live in a country where my fellow man work for a “non-productive” factory in Sweden, or any other advanced European economy, than in the US.

And quite frankly, if management wants to exploit their workers, they can go fuck themselves.

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Re:Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla ... by scarab92 on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:07AM (#38219746)

Actually most developed countries only have very small unionised workforces. The OECD average is 9% (rising to 17% if you include public sector).

Moreover, union membership is rapidly falling. Every OECD country except Spain and Belgium are losing union members faster than they are being added.

Unions don’t really make sense for employers, and typically don’t make sense for high skilled workers either.

While I’m sure that many low skilled workers prefer them, it’s the companies and higher skilled workers who decide where businesses operate.

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Re:Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla ... by Gud on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:10AM (#38219779)

We are specifically talking manufacturing. I am not surprised less and less people are members of a union. Unions don't always make sense.

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Re:Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla ... by threatofrain on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:23PM (#38222508)

Price is part of the quality of a product or else we’d all be buying the Vision Pro and the iPhone SE would just be confusing.

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