If the Tesla CEO studied the Nordic labour movement like he studies car batteries, he\u2019d see that collective bargaining can suit employers too<\/p>\n
Elon Musk, the notoriously anti-union CEO<\/a> of the electric car giant Tesla, finds himself on the ropes in his dispute with Swedish workers. After more than two months of strikes \u2013 the first against Tesla anywhere in the world<\/a> \u2013 10 Swedish unions have so far launched industrial action against the company and the pressure is growing.<\/p>\n The issue at the core of the original dispute concerns Tesla and the Swedish industrial union IF Metall, which sought a collective agreement to provide better wages and benefits for <\/strong>mechanics in Tesla\u2019s repair shops. The union\u2019s members in Sweden have been on strike since 27 October.<\/p>\n German Bender is chief analyst at the progressive Swedish thinktank Arena and a former visiting research fellow at Harvard Law School<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If the Tesla CEO studied the Nordic labour movement like he studies car batteries, he\u2019d see that collective bargaining can suit employers too Elon Musk, the notoriously anti-union CEO of the electric car giant Tesla, finds himself on the ropes in his dispute with Swedish workers. After more than two months of strikes \u2013 the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}