Court decides postal service does not have to deliver licence plates, for now, in latest twist in row over collective bargaining
  • FragrantOwl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    135·
    11 months ago

    Musk said last week: “I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing.”

    What a colossal twat.

      • AAA@feddit.deEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        Not only doesn’t he like the peasants winning, he also doesn’t like to be reminded that the peasants are indeed in power - because his lordship relies a lot more on them than vice versa.

      • HamartiogonicEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        As long as he gets to be the king who gets whatever he wants, he’s totally cool with the idea.

    • geissi@feddit.deEnglish
      29·
      11 months ago

      lords-and-peasants kind of thing

      The thing he refers to is of course people he sees as peasants not accepting him as lord.

    • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
      27·
      11 months ago

      A twat with no understanding of how nordic countries have strong labour unions playing a vital role in their economic models. Cowboys with cash can and should go fuck themselves.

        • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          You’re definitely not! But you do have backup from Danish unions. Solidarity is how we’ll bring down this… I lack words to describe him, the Danish term would be “selvfed”, meaning that you consider yourself cooler than anyone else does. I asked Google to translate, and it came back with “smug”, which doesn’t really cover it. Then I asked Google to describe Musk in one word, and it came back with a post from LinkedIn that pretty much used the antonyms for what I was trying to find, namely “genius, futurist, innovator, and entrepreneur”

          Fuck that MuskyBoi and his feudal aspirations.

          • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Yeah as you probably could see I was trying to get multiple Scandinavian laughs in one.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    16·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Tesla has lost a legal action against Sweden’s postal service as a dispute with Nordic trade unions escalates.

    A Swedish court said on Thursday that PostNord did not, for the time being, need to deliver licence plates to the electric carmaker that were being blocked by the postal service’s workers, in the latest twist in a battle over collective bargaining agreements.

    A large Danish pension fund on Wednesday said it would sell its holdings in Tesla because of the carmaker’s refusal to enter into such deals, while Denmark’s largest trade union has joined strike action by the company’s workers in Sweden.

    Nordic countries represent key markets for Tesla, which has a policy of not agreeing to collective bargaining and has said its staff have as good or better terms than those that IF Metall is demanding.

    In a case related to the PostNord action, a court on 27 November ruled that the Swedish Transport Agency must find a way to get licence plates to Tesla.

    Some Swedish pension funds have urged Tesla to sign the agreement with the union, but have so far held off from selling their shares.

    The original article contains 372 words, the summary contains 189 words. Saved 49%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    Tesla is expected to appeal the decision though. This was just the first court. We have 3, the last being the supreme Court.

    • Sigmatics@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      Musk “picked” the wrong fighting grounds here. I’m pretty sure he will lose even at the supreme court eventually. And each day this drags on is a win for the unions

      • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        That’s why strikes work. If you’re not paid enough, not going to work barely loses you anything. If a workplace is shut down the company loses thousands per day. They still pay rent but earn no money.

        Strikes usually end quickly if the company is focused on money. It’s cheaper to pay workers a raise they originally deserved so they feel like they won, than stay closed.

      • Zpiritual@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Nah, if Tesla had won here Postnord doesn’t have to follow if they plan on bringing it to higher court. Granted they may not have wanted that but hypothetically.