Finland is also joining in
The strikes targeting Tesla are continuing to expand. It started in Sweden, but has now spread throughout Scandinavia. The goal: collective wage agreements for Tesla employees.
Following Danish and Norwegian unions, the Finnish transport union AKT has now also announced that it will participate in actions against Tesla. The reason is the negotiations on a new collective labor agreement for car mechanics in Sweden. Those negotiations are at an impasse. Employees at all ports in Finland will block the transit of Teslas from December 20. “It is a crucial part of the Scandinavian labor market model that we have collective agreements and trade unions support each other,” AKT chairman Ismo Kokko justified the decision in a statement.
Earlier this week, Norwegian and Danish unions joined the actions against Tesla. In Norway and Denmark, the unions also want to prevent manufacturer’s electric cars from entering the country. Norges Bank Investment Management, the world’s largest equity investor from Norway with a stake in Tesla, responded to the actions on Friday. The sovereign wealth fund told Reuters it “expects companies in which we invest to respect fundamental human rights, including labor rights.”
At the end of October, around 130 employees from ten Tesla workshops in Sweden stopped working. Members of other unions, including postal workers, dock workers and cleaners, have joined the action in solidarity. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has previously expressed his outrage about the strikes. He called the consequences of this ‘insane’. At the end of last month, Tesla achieved success in a lawsuit against the Swedish authority that issues license plates. She must deliver them directly to Tesla, without the intervention of the striking postal company. This week it ended again in a lawsuit against that postal company. They can simply persist in refusing to provide the license plates to Tesla.
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