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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

USA strikers should take notes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The rabble refuses to do my perfect bidding?! This is insanity!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Elmo's clearly the one whose insane.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Waiting for Noway and Denmark to join in and make it even more insane

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know there are Tesla Factories in Norway, but I don't think there are any in Denmark. I'm Danish, but I could be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

It's more about the sympathy striking. If danish post clerks did not deliver letters to Tesla's offices or like in Sweden, they won't make number plates or unload them from the ships

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Given the recent Dutch election I suspect trade unions may not be participating...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What does the Dutch election have to do with unions in Sweden, Noway and Denmark?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's appreciate the insanity of opening factories in countries with some of the best unions and laws supporting unions and then doing a pikachu face when those unions go and decide to bust your kneecaps for essentially abusing the workers... Elon why did you even open a factory in sweden? It was obvious from the beginning this would happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Probably some insidious long term plan to weaken unions in Scandinavian countries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ll take “Things petulant billionaires say when they don’t get their way” for $1000, Alex.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

He's so persecuted. Guys, guys, be nice to Elon. He's just the victim here. There's no way these strikes are a direct response to his policies and business practices.

Poor thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Guys, this is what success for the working class looks like.

If the ruling class is upset, it's because we're doing something right.

If they're content, it's because they're fucking us up the ass with no lube or reach-around.

They literally want us to roll over and just take it. And some of us are proud to. Glad that number is rapidly diminishing, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Waaaah my precious market forces are working against me."

They've seen 50-100% payrises in many cases - unions are important.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Unions that are bottom up organizations are important, Unions that are beholden to the political class are just a way to control us.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sure, I guess.

Eating vegetables is good too - rotten vegetables are bad to eat though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unions consisting entirely of Vampires and other human-flesh/blood consuming monsters of myth and legend are also bad.

Because of the murders and the consuming of human flesh and blood.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

You forgot to mention also the mess that needs to be cleaned up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cry harder billionaire.

Literally made his money on exploitation and lies. SpaceX is amazing, but built on much smarter minds; he was just the wallet. And he bought Tesla and has been lying and overpromising since he did.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

NASA could do what SpaceX does if we gave NASA the money we gave SpaceX. I won't even give him credit for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wtf are you on about? We give SpaceX nowhere near the funds we give NASA.

We gave NASA $25 billion this year.

SpaceX was awarded a $2.9B contract to fund the entire "land starship on the moon" program (a non cost+ contact I might add) spanning multiple years. They launched two sets of crew to the iss this year, at an estimated cost of ~700m. They have had one cargo mission this year at a cost of about $150m.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's give NASA that 2.9b for a new program then. That's a 10% budget increase.

Hell give me $2.9b and I'll find people to put us on the moon. Elon didn't do shit except take tax money, and give it to smart people, while keeping a cut for himself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do it then. Nobody else in the industry seems able to.

When it comes to space programs and launch costs/waste, SpaceX is at the bottom of the list. Nobody puts stuff in space cheaper than they do. And not by a small margin.

For comparison, the cost for SLS to launch into earth orbit is $4.1B. TO LAUNCH. Development costs for that program have exceeded $27B. They have been working on it since 2011. It has launched exactly one time over a year ago.

The entire contract to SpaceX to fully develop and launch a moon lander is less than the cost of launching a single SLS rocket.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Alright I'll do it when I get the cheque.

The stuff they put into space cheaply is actually debris from their poorly built launch pads that ricocheted off a school bus.