Never heard of a shipping company refusing to ship based on political belief

It is not shipping company. It is shipping company workers not wanting to touch Tesla stuff.

Just pretend that the workers have a patent on this (and/or that patents are a "political belief") and you'll think of lots of examples of organisations using leverage over other organisations to achieve some goal, sometimes to the public good and sometimes against it.

> Never heard of a shipping company refusing to ship based on political belief

I actually know a postal worker in the US who got fired ("resign or else type") for refusing to deliver political mail that he didn't agree with, so yeah in the US try this and get fired.

>Never heard of a shipping company refusing to ship based on political belief

The strike is about working contracts not about Elon dumb stuff, and before someone defends Elon I will inform you that Elon himself admitted he said some very dumb stuff.

That's nothing, whole genders have striked before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Icelandic_women%27s_strik...

In Sweden in 1979, a number of people called in sick for "being gay", to protest that homosexuality was still classified as a disease. After that, an activist occupation of the National Board of Health and Welfare's headquarters began. Within a few months, Sweden became one of the first countries in the world to declassify homosexuality as a disease.

Elmo need to start paying attention.

A bit apples to oranges. That's an actual strike. They don't go in to work and they don't get paid. They didn't selectively continue working but only for X that they decided are they good guys

A strike is only one part of industrial actions which unions can take, other include overtime bans and, in this case, a blockade. The purpose is to force Tesla to the negotiating table and get a collective bargaining agreement, which covers most of the Swedish labour market.

I don’t understand why anyone should care about whatever an “actual strike” is. Maybe some labor organization strikes against working with some hazardous product like asbestos. So they refuse to work with it. But they continue to work with other materials. Because they’re not striking against all the other products that they work with...

> Never heard of a shipping company refusing to ship based on political belief

But there are plenty of examples of companies threatening to leave, or leaving a state due to unfavorable politics. Companies choose all the time where and with whom they do business.