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.

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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