Strike at carmaker prompts sympathy action from dockers, painters and postal workers in fight over Swedish labour model

Elon Musk has decried a wave of “insane” strikes focused on Tesla workshops in Sweden, as workers target the US electric car manufacturer in a strike calling for collective bargaining rights.

In what has been portrayed as the largest fight in decades to save Sweden’s union model from global labour practices, the powerful trade union IF Metall has been leading a strike across eight Tesla workplaces in Sweden for five weeks.

It is the first time workers for the US carmaker have gone on strike and on Thursday, Musk, the tech billionaire and chief executive of Tesla, made his feelings clear, writing on X, formerly Twitter: “This is insane.”

  • brewbart@feddit.de
    57·
    11 months ago

    But didn’t he also go above and beyond to have him portrayed as founder of SpaceX?

    • BlackRing@midwest.social
      70·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, and I’m fairly certain he bought the right to be called ‘founder’ of Tesla… From the founders.

      • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        11 months ago

        Then almost immediately bankrupted Tesla. Was their first near miss of going under.

        Story has been retconned on their website to say Elon fixed the car. That the Roadster wasn’t even close to production ready. He did neither.

        What really happened is he wanted to redo much of the looks of the car to put his stamp on it. They spent a small fortune tweaking the Elise body to make it look just slightly less like one. Ballooned their production costs and added a ton of delays. The original team was going to use the Elise chassis as it came from Lotus and people had already lined up to buy that.

    • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      That’s what all “visionary entrepreneurs” do. They pretend like they made every single product they sell with their bare hands and all the engineers and scientists designing them and the factory workers fabricating them are just for decoration.

      I’m also convinced that they’ve breathed enough of their own farts that they genuinely believe most of the things they say.

      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
        11·
        11 months ago

        Yup. The groundwork for privatized space travel had been in the works for a decade or two by that point. But musk wanted to buy an icbm and Russia said no. So he was convinced by much smarter people to become the money mark.