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For you outside Sweden: There is no such thing as minimum wage. It's perfectly legal to hire someone for 0 SEK / month.

The whole idea is that a collective agreement should be negotiated and agreed upon by the employers and employees in each business area (like telecom, healthcare, factory workers, electricians etc etc). The idea is that the employers and employees, not the politicians, knows more about what their market/business area requires and is able to deliver in the form of minimum wage, yearly salary increase, vacation and overtime (among other things) .

Here's the thing that often is different in discusions like the one about Tesla refusing to sign a collective agreement: Collective agreements only limits the minimums. So the only reason to refuse to sign is if you intend to keep some thing below the levels that are the norm in your business area.

Essentially, you're trying to get unfair competitive advantage.

I think Musk is caught up so deeply in his far right delusions by now that rethinking anything is just not on the cards.

This is the guy who shit-posted so hard he had to buy Twitter. I don't think smart business is at the front of his mind.

Tesla is taking out wanted ads to hire scabs.

Disgusting company, adapt to our model or go home.

that would be great of course but you know who's very ready to double down and lose billions instead of saying 'uhmm you know what I think I was wrong and I need to correct course'?

yeah that guy

American workers: scribbles notes furiously

This is how strikes work. Not 1000 Amazon employees on black Friday.

A US business rethink an anti-union model? Even businesses with unions would be happy to get rid of them here. They’re not going to rethink anything, they’ll expend every possible effort to avoid bending a knee to a union, especially a foreign one.

May the might of the Swedish unions always be in their favour.

Communist Sweden

/s

Meanwhile in the USA I believe the supreme Court recently ruled that unions are responsible for repaying companies for striking...

get fucked capitalist scum

This is the best summary I could come up with:

What started as a minor local disagreement has grown to the point that it could have global implications, with potential ripple effects for labour movements and auto workers across Europe and the US.

The financial tech company Klarna recently had to give way after several years of attempting to resist collective bargaining agreements, and settled with employees in a victory for white-collar unions.

In the US, Tesla has been involved in a number of scandals over the past decade, with allegations relating to workplace safety, racial discrimination, sexual harassment, labour violations and unlawful practices to curb unionisation efforts.

When United Auto Workers organised strikes at the “big three” car companies – General Motors, Ford and Stellantis – in Michigan this summer, three-quarters of Americans said they supported it.

(Donald Trump also showed up in Michigan, but gave a speech at a non-unionised car parts maker, which was equally characteristic of his signature working-class cosplay without policy substance.)

For Musk, there are reasons to worry that his business model could be challenged, as the fight in Sweden reverberates with the strengthening power of labour organisers across American unions.

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Fight on Swedish Unions! Let that Son-of-a-Musk get a black eye for trying his BS over here!

Thank you Europe for help fix our companies.

That's why you don't fuck with vikings.

Despite the rightwing government currently in power in Sweden, calls to change the employment model are rare.

I thought rightwing means conservative, do they use the word to mean pro-capitalist now?

"capitalists have picked an unwinnable fight with unions"

Tale as old as unions.

It could, but it won't.

If their values are incompatible and they are inflexible they made a mistake and should relocate.