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Elon Musk calls strikes ‘insane’ as Swedish workers take on Tesla (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 61 points 2 years ago (4 children)

“My guess is that Tesla will not remain in Sweden without collective arrangement.”

so … Tesla won’t remain in Sweden (lucky Swedes) – we already know Elon would rather shoot his foot than agree to anything that doesn’t benefit him personally and immediately …

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    At the end of the day, a billionaire's primary ideology is money. Signing the contract, after failing to defeat the unions, will make him the most money at the end of the day, so I suspect that he will sign it.

    Unless he feels like exiting the Swedish, Norwegian and German markets, of course.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    while corporate ideology is money, there’s absolutely no thought put into it – immediate profits always trump long term savings – new customers are gold, customer retention is anathema – we’ve already seen multiple companies that would happily block entire countries rather than play nice – and Elon has proven himself far more infantile and narcissistic than anything we’ve seen before

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Also lucky any-other-ev-companh that wants to snap up hoards of trained, skilled workers

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Hordes

    Unless you're calling workers possessions, locked in a vault somewhere

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's interesting timing, right when Sweden is making a breakthrough with sodium ion battery tech. Especially considering that batteries are the only thing Tesla actually produces, and that other EV companies are investing in Northvolt (the company that's pursuing sodium ion battery tech).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    on top of everything else, Tesla insists on using their own chargers rather than anything standardized (like CCS in EU) similar to the whole custom-phone-connector mess that EU has been trying to move away from

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