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Swede here, one of the best thing about unions here is that sympathy strikes are legal.
When Toys 'R Us tried to establish themselves on the Swedish market, they refused to sign a collective bargaining agreement with the national store workers union.
TRU refused to hire union staff, which is legal, but other unions took notice and sympathy strikes started.
TRU could not get advertisements and marketing material printed as the print media union refused the work.
TRU could not get deliveries as the transport union refused to handle their deliveries.
TRU could not even pay their bills as the financial workers union refused to process their payments.
So TRU gave in and signed a CBA, they hired union staff and the stores could open, however the time in Sweden was relatively short lived for TRU.
These tactics are in use currently against Tesla as they have also refused to sign a CBA.
Sadly they have proven to be less effective in this case.
Last I heard the dockworkers union still refuse to unload Tesla cars in Swedish ports, so Tesla unloads them outside of Sweden and use foreign transportation companies to deliver them.
The postal workers union refuse to deliver registration plates to Tesla, so they have started having the new owners take delivery of the plates and then fit them at Tesla.
The most effective part is that the electricians union refuse to work on Tesla chargers, so new ones are not connected and broken chargers are not repaired. At my local super market there are six new chargers that are just sitting there and have been for the last two years due to this.
This is how working people should be represented overall and everywhere
... and no, I'm not talking about a socialist or communist hellscape where society is governed or managed by an powerful manager class - that crap just reeks of the current system we have now in the capitalist system.
We just need a balance in society ... let all the rich people get their rocks off and try to make as much money as possible but place them in a limited box of wealth, if they make 100 million dollars, they get a plaque that says 'you won capitalism' and they are now forced to retire and go live on their wealth ... meanwhile, every working person is given a decent wage, any excess profit is spent on worker benefits and supports, safety, education, health care, childcare and vacation time.
We can't keep maintaining this insane system of businesses and companies that use the labour of individual people, paying the worker as little as possible while giving away the excess profits of that work to people who have not contributed to any of the work other than to claim some kind of ownership or entitlement to the business or company.
So.... Socialism then