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☆ Swedish union blocks Tesla components as dispute intensifies
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Around 50 workers that make specialized Tesla components at Hydro Extrusions, a subsidiary of Norwegian aluminium and energy company Hydro, will either stay at home or be given other tasks from Friday until further notice, the IF Metall union said. IF Metall, Sweden's biggest manufacturing union, is locked in a fight with Tesla to get a collective bargaining agreement for its 130 mechanics in Sweden. The U.S. carmaker has a policy to not sign collective bargaining agreements and says its employees have as good or better terms than what the Swedish union is demanding. The union says it is vital to the Swedish labour market model that all companies have collective agreements. Around 90% of all employees in Sweden are covered by collective bargaining agreements, which regulates wages, vacation, overtime pay and other conditions.

Persons: Veli, Pekka Saikkala, Tesla, Metall, Saikkala, carmaker, Torbjorn Johansson, Elon, Johansson, Johan Ahlander, Marie, Victoria Waldersee, Susan Fenton Organizations: Tesla, Hydro Extrusions, Hydro, IF Metall, Metall, LO, Marie Mannes, Thomson Locations: Berlin, Europe, Sweden, U.S, Stockholm, Victoria

☆ Union pressure on Tesla grows in Sweden as dockworkers expand strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A view shows the ship Malacca Highway at shore as port workers are blocking the loading of Tesla vehicles, in Malmo, Sweden, November 7, 2023. Dockworkers joined the strike by mechanics on Nov. 7, blocking Sweden's four largest ports to Tesla cars. So far, unions in the United States and Germany have failed to force the company to accept collective bargaining agreements. In addition to dockworkers, unionised cleaners are refusing to clean Tesla buildings and postal workers have stopped delivering mail. In the 1990s, American toy company Toys "R" Us signed a collective bargaining agreement with its 130 Swedish employees after a three month strike.

Persons: Johan Nilsson, Tesla, Elon Musk, Dockworkers, Musk, Torbjorn Johansson, Norway's Fellesforbundet, Marie Mannes, Louise Rasmussen, Johan Ahlander, Johannes Birkebaek, Simon Johnson, Mark Potter Organizations: TT, Agency, Rights, U.S, Swedish, IF Metall, Hydro Extrusions, Hydro, Thomson Locations: Malacca, Malmo, Sweden, Rights STOCKHOLM, Dockworkers, United States, Germany, American

☆ Unions in Sweden Expand Blockade Against Tesla
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Melissa Eddy | More About Melissa Eddy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Tesla does not produce any vehicles in Sweden, but runs several facilities where the cars are serviced. So far this year, the Tesla Model Y is the best-selling new car in Sweden, with more than 14,000 registrations through October, according to Mobility Sweden, an industry group. Unions representing cleaners have also refused to service Tesla facilities, and the postal workers’ union stopped any deliveries from reaching the company’s sites. Both IF Metall and the Transport Workers’ Union have acknowledged that Tesla has found ways around the strikes. Tesla appeared to be bringing in other mechanics to staff its facilities and bringing new vehicles into Sweden by truck, they said.

Persons: Tesla, ’, Dockworkers, ” Dirk Schulze, ” Mr, Schulze, IF Metall Organizations: Tesla, Mobility Sweden, Swedish Transport Workers ’ Union, IF Metall, Transport Workers ’ Union, IG Metall, Metall, IF, Hydro Extrusions Locations: Sweden, Swedish, Sweden’s, Germany, Berlin, Brandenburg

☆ Tesla faces pressure in Sweden as workers at supplier to strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Tesla has no manufacturing plant in Sweden but its electric cars are serviced at workshops across the country, where around 130 mechanics affiliated with Swedish union IF Metall began a strike on Oct. 27. Hydro Extrusions's Vetlanda plant makes aluminium profiles - aluminium alloys transformed into shapes, and is the first Tesla supplier in Sweden to down tools in support of the mechanics' strike. The carmaker told IF Metall on Nov. 6 it did not want to sign a collective agreement, the union said. "We want Tesla Sweden to sign a collective agreement... We want this conflict to be as brief and short as possible," IF Metall spokesperson Jesper Pettersson said. German unions have pressured the carmaker to implement a similar agreement for its 11,000 workers in Gruenheide, near Berlin.

Persons: Tyrone Siu, Tesla, Jesper Pettersson, Marie Mannes, Victoria Waldersee, Johan Ahlander, Emelia Sithole Organizations: Tesla, REUTERS, Rights, U.S, Swedish, IF Metall, dockworkers, Hydro Extrusions, Hydro, IF, Thomson Locations: Taipei, Taiwan, Rights STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Vetlanda, Gruenheide, Berlin

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