Strike at carmaker prompts sympathy action from dockers, painters and postal workers in fight over Swedish labour model

Elon Musk has decried a wave of “insane” strikes focused on Tesla workshops in Sweden, as workers target the US electric car manufacturer in a strike calling for collective bargaining rights.

In what has been portrayed as the largest fight in decades to save Sweden’s union model from global labour practices, the powerful trade union IF Metall has been leading a strike across eight Tesla workplaces in Sweden for five weeks.

It is the first time workers for the US carmaker have gone on strike and on Thursday, Musk, the tech billionaire and chief executive of Tesla, made his feelings clear, writing on X, formerly Twitter: “This is insane.”

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    55·
    1 year ago

    I mean, he makes several hundred times what any of those workers make. That’s because his labor is just soooo much more valuable than anything they could do, should be easy for him do all their work too, right?..right?

    Yeah, just a friendly reminder that no rich person is “self-made.” Their wealth (especially billionaires) is built off the backs of hundreds, often thousands of exploited workers, combined with favors and handouts from the government.

    I love watching Musk screech and scream while his ass gets clapped by unions, keep it up!

    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
      223·
      1 year ago

      I mean, he makes several hundred times what any of those workers make.

      Not several hundred times more. A million times more. If you made 100k, he made 1000 x 1000 as much as you to make 100 billion.

      A billion dollars is an unfathomable amount of money. A hundred billion is unknowable. If anything, your points are even more poignant.

      • lud@lemm.ee
        71·
        1 year ago

        I think they are referring to his actual salary and not his “worth”.