• uranibaba@lemmy.world
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    An interesting precedent that offers a hint of what Tesla could be up against occurred in 1995 when Toys’R’Us entered the Swedish market and initially refused to sign a collective agreement with the retail union, Handelsanställdas Förbund. The company eventually conceded after three months of labor strife, including a number of solidarity strikes when other unions blocked all deliveries, garbage collection, postal service, bank payments, and other vital parts the firm’s operations. The conflict was even supported by unions in many other countries, who encouraged their members to boycott Toys’R’Us products.

    Go Sweden’s unions!

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      Iirc, the company faltered and floundered very badly afterwards. The (now unionized) workers had to say, “it’s OK now, we got a contact!”, but that message was hard to get out, since it’s a lot less sexy than the strife.

      They basically wrecked the company, trying to fight the union

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        They basically wrecked the company, trying to fight the union

        Which is exactly how things should go