Elon Musk’s electrical automotive firm has suffered a reversal of fortune in its ongoing battle with Sweden’s labor unions. Seems, Teslas received’t be getting license plates within the nordic nation—at the very least, not for the foreseeable future.
Tesla has been in deep shit with the unions of Scandinavia ever because it did not ratify a collective bargaining settlement with a bunch of Swedish mechanics in October. These mechanics, who’re a part of a distinguished Swedish Union, IF Metall, proceeded to go on strike, which spurred different regional labor unions to assist their effort. Not too long ago, employees with Sweden’s put up workplace, PostNord, stopped delivering license plates to Tesla as an act of solidarity with the putting employees.
Predictably, Tesla’s response to this motion was to sue the federal government of Sweden. This spurred a Swedish courtroom final week to rule that the Swedish Transport Company, the father or mother company of Sweden’s put up workplace, was obligated to ship license plates to the EV firm. Nonetheless, The Guardian now reports that these license plates received’t need to be delivered in spite of everything—at the very least not for now. A Swedish courtroom determined that PostNord employees shouldn’t be pressured to ship license plates in the event that they don’t need to. This newest judgement is an “interim determination” that shall be in impact till a “closing ruling,” The Guardian studies.
PostNord’s cessation of Tesla license plate deliveries has made issues tough for the electrical automobile firm, and different Swedish employees—together with electricians, dock employees, cleaners, and drivers—have all abandoned (or are threatening to abandon) the corporate as effectively if it fails to cut price with the mechanics. Tesla’s organized labor downside seems to be spreading, too. Employees in Denmark and Norway have also instigated actions in opposition to the automotive firm as a present of solidarity. This makes it all of the extra ironic that, in a current interview, Elon admitted: “I disagree with the concept of unions.” Apparently, the sensation is mutual.