Europe's most powerful Union fails to shutdown Tesla; sales skyrocket 142%
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- Europe's most powerful Union fails to shutdown Tesla; sales skyrocket 142%
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First, they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win!
Thats what the unions are saying... Tesla isnt the first US company who tries to take on Scandinavian unions.
Tesla has about 300 employees in Sweden. Of those about 130 are 'mechanics' - a category of workers commonly represented by IF Metall in collective bargaining negotiations with employers in Sweden. It appears that of those 130 mechanics around 70 are members of IF Metall. Information from the Swedish National Mediation Office indicates that only about a third of Tesla's 130 Tesla mechanics - 40 or so - have actually walked off the job. The strike is very small scale but nonetheless the number of striking workers represents a majority of IF Metall workers at Tesla. Support for the strike and the objectives of the strike amongst IF Metall members, including those who have elected not to strike, is high.
The strike hasn't ended and Tesla hasn't agreed to negotiate workplace agreements with IF Metall. That isn't what victory looks like for any party.
The really crazy thing about this conflict in Sweden is that the workers who have suffered the most are those that have been unionized in other companies supplying Tesla with parts, since other unions have forced the suppliers to stop supplying Tesla with parts, this has caused the suppliers to being forced to shutdown manufacturing and subequently fire all the staff that has been working with Tesla.
Thank goodness Tesla is not JUST a car company.
IF Metall have offered to pay the salaries for workers that participates in the strike at non-Tesla companies, but those companies chose to cut their own nose to spite IF Metall.
@@JanBruunAndersenThe only spite is coming from IF Metal. Other organisations don't want their trade affected by this union that is causing havoc. Paying other worker's salaries is extreme and just plain stupid. Tesla workers don't want the workplace agreement offered by IF Metal so it has escalated to a political and ideological battle by IF Metal.
@@krossbolt4100 - you don't know what the Tesla mechanics want or don't want. You only know what the mechanics (or Tesla) says they want. What people say they want, and what they really want, could be two different things.
@@JanBruunAndersen That "help" does not help the companies that are loosing the contracts.
Title implies that this 142% is some global number, perhaps referring to entire Europe, or Germany, or another huge market. But no - this loud advertising stunt applies to marginal market of Sweden. Good unbiased work, Sam.
The headline says it is about Europe’s most powerful union failing to shutdown Tesla and the evidence of that failure is growth in that market. Troll elsewhere.👹
Unions are not as powerful in Sweden as they used to be, but still powerful, so It's great that Tesla won't bend the knee to the union mafia.
Tesla is in the wrong here. All IF Metall wants is to get Tesla to cooperate and sign a collective bargain/contract and to follow The Swedish Workplace Workorder. The Tesla Union part of IF Metall want Tesla Sweden to be successful and prosperous, so their members can take part in that success and prosperity. That is what unions normally want.
Swedish unions have seats at the boards of Swedish companies and they help out to steer companies. That is a fact most foreign people do not know.
As far as I have seen there is no active campaign to get fewer Tesla buyers in Sweden. They, IF Metall just want throw a spanner in the deliver process. They want leverage in the negotiation process to get Tesla to say more yes than no.
@@ewawiman9007 stop bullshitting, I'm a Swede.
@@ewawiman9007 Why would Tesla Employees want a potential wage and benefit reduction by going Union and then on top of that have to pay Union Dues? Way too many Unions unfortunately have become leaches and high profit institutions getting fat off the people they are supposedly protecting. When you work for a good employer the last thing you want is a Union sucking your blood forcing a service on you that you don't actually want or need. Sadly too many Unions are out there for one thing which is to protect their own interests and inflated salaries. It's come full circle now with workers needing protection from their Protectors/Unions.
Best!
@@ewawiman9007Maybe Tesla doesn't want any "help" from the union to steer their company.
@@SkepticalCavemanthat makes it even worse. Not knowing the strengths of your own economic model….
Tesla has arrived in LATAM. The first country is Chile, salespeople say they’re selling surprisingly well.
Thanks Sam for journalism with integrity
In the UK we had this in the 80’s big unions goading their members into confrontations with the police and beating up people who wanted to work …..where are they now ? Gone and their jobs moved offshore. Unions bosses are okay though one even lives in a nice ‘grace & favour’ apartment in London !
So now the taxpayer has to subsidise the low wage non unionised mcJobs we have now.
In a free country ---> The decision to join a union or not join a union is an individual as well as company choice.
Having been in an Auto Union. I can honestly say, they just reward laziness. They keep telling workers to push for as much pay as possible. Since the more pay they get, the union receives more money from the workers. Perhaps they can help you with an issue at work. However, I've seen it cause more harm than good!
If people want to join Unions let them. But this is about compulsion and so is disgusting.
thats the thing, these unions are corrupt so they need to force people to join them through legislation or company policy
if this unions membership was made voluntary it would collapse overnight
like most, it's a union that doesn't serve it's members, it's a parasite
what about normal hard workers to whom unions are closing employers?
So sad to see Unions more interested in Politics and money, than helping their members.
Auto Unions around the world should be screaming for the switch to EVs...this is the only hope for the entire industry. But...alas...Money and Politics...screw their members...see the AWU in the States....
You need fewer workers when building EVs.
not in total calculation@@icosthop9998
@@icosthop9998 To build ICE GM uses underpaid Chinese and Mexican workers. Lots of them. Paying $0.93/hr. Imagine working 100 hours a week to make just $93! Overtime? What is that?
Do you also condemn Corporations for being interested in Money and Politics? I fail to see the difference. Any organization can be corrupt, but doesn't have to be.
well there is a difference: Corporations are Businesses - they exist to make profits. Unions ARE NOT. They exist to protect the workforce/ its members. Alas, the Auto Unions are short-sighted, often corrupt and don't seem to give a toss about their members, alas. The line workers of Legacy Auto deserve better.@@guygordon2780
Try compare the rights that benefit Swedish workers with the ones that protect Texan workers and try to figure out why such a difference…..strange isn’t? 🧐. Victory prize to anyone who guesses right: seek leave T/S? holiday days T/S ? Health Insurance? T/S parental leave ? T/S?….
Paid parental leave T/S Work environment T/S as well as Negotiating wages.
In Sweden the collective contract controls thing that in some countries are controlled and regulated in laws. We have basic rules set by our laws but on top is our collective contracts/agreements with specifics on working hours and rest, overtime pay and such things including certain aspects of work environment.
So our unions have a bit of a say and they strieve to protect us as workers against the nefairiousness that employers can show some times.
There is a lot of truth in Mark Twain's words: “It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”. I think the Unions made exactly opposite to this advice...
As a student of Tony Seba, he often rushed through the transition from horses to cars, he mentions the resistance, yet still it occurred. It would be interesting to find an historian and economists, and a political scientist who studied this period in great detail. I'm sure you would find great power exercises against the transition. So it maybe happened more slowly. But still it happened.
Unions have their place in industry but when they start dictating how companies work there is a problem and history tells us that that problem is usually political with a plan a lot bigger that a single company.
With all that is going on in Europe right now someone needs to take a hard look at just how this union is funding all of this. Always follow the money and I'm willing to bet that it is Rubbles.
Who dictates who in the workplace
I do not think the source is Russian.
Na they're just a bunch of commies.
You need to look in a mirror to make sure your tinfoil hat is sitting correctly if you think Russia has anything to do with this.
@@TheAefril History says different. Through the 1950's and 60 and right into the 1970's the militant unions were all communists backed and USSR funded.
Their actions were a large contributor to the British coal mining and car manufacturing industries. Even here in New Zealand union action was directly responsible for the destruction of the boilermakers industry and the ringleaders behind it openly admitted that they were receiving support from what was then the USSR.
When are people going to wake up Russia has a very long history of fermenting chaos in the west and they are very good at it.
In Poland it is in the form of farmer protest on Ukrainian grain crossing Poland and yet the same protesters ignore Russian grain on the same train.
In the USA it is the MAGA movement who are blocking Ukrainian aid.
For these organizations to be effective they need funding and media attention and Russia is the one country that is willing to fund them
It sounds so good when the Union says that they protect the workers and so on. The reality is more like they protect workers that are underperforming, spread negative vibes and have a very critical view of the company they work for and most important, are not very good at their work and plain lazy. And the Union want them to have the same salary as the best staff, like everyone is equally good, no matter what they do or dont do. Its not healthy at all.
Unions are a dead hand on the shoulder of business….these fools are all going to be redundant in the next decade, their actions will accelerate their demise and customers are happy to stick it to them by buying Teslas 😂
Swedish postal service is bad. I was living in Sweden in 2022 , and there were a lot of problems with not getting mail
Yes, and the swedish CEO of PostNord makes even more money now - from €50k/month four years ago to €80k/month while greatly increasing stamp price and shipping fees, oh and reducing the delivery days of the mail...
those unions in europe are showing their true colors. That kind of attitude shows they are trying to continue the old status quo. major losers in that case is innovation and car prices while reducing the polution and reducing funds flowing to rich petroleum places in the ME.
Are you kidding? The unions want to be a part of the EV industry too. Why do think, they fight for a union contract with Tesla?
Thank goodness Tesla is not JUST a car company.
Nah, the narrative in Sweden hasn't been solely 'Union good, Tesla bad'. The debate is nuanced here too... some agree with Tesla, some with the union.
The level of corruption..... Is skyrocketed
It turns out no matter where you are, people hates being told what they should do.
If people wants to join the union, it should happen naturally, not bullied into joining.
amazing what happens when you pay your people well. If legacy auto wasn't so greedy at the top maybe they wouldn't have such an adversarial relationship with their line workers.
No one likes being told what to do. Especially not by gangsters: government or union.
Great NEWS Mr Viking!
sounds like unions provided free advertising for Tesla
Deindustrialisation is the bigger problem, and that is not helped by suffocating new businesses.
In the US you pick up your own plates at the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) upon registration. The dealer only gives you temporary paper tags, so a post office boycott, like what they are doing in Sweden, would never be an issue or a threat.
Not in every State. Most states you get a temporary plate when you purchase a new car. DMV mails the plates weeks later. For used cars you get them at DMV.
Most countries around the world require the permanent plates to be affixed to the car when the customer picks it up.
@@TB-up4xi I am not familiar with how it works in other countries but here in the US in many states, the plate gets mailed to you. When you purchase a new car, the dealer gives you a temporary plate (paper plate) unless you are transferring plates from another car. Even online sellers like CARVANA mail them to the buyer. I believe that here in New England, only the State of Massachusetts requires the actual plates to be on the vehicle before taking delivery. One of my daughters bought a car there and she had to wait to get the plates before taking delivery.
In those countries that you mentioned, Does the dealer keep a whole bunch of plates at their location to give to customers when they buy a new car? Even if they only keep 5 in average and there are 1k dealers in that country that would mean that 5k plates are just sitting at dealers across the country. Or do they make you wait to pick up the car until you get the plates?
Tesla is not just fighting the Union. Tesla is fighting the Automobile Manufacturing Companies as they are working together with the Unions.
Europe has a huge problem with endless rules and unions: new tech companies can’t grow to scale and old tech companies can’t keep up with changes.
Are you 12 y old?
Union chanting "TESLA" is free publicity.
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How are you feeling? Hope you’re doing better.
Cheers mate
The more I hear about the unions in Sweden the more it sounds like a reverse gilded era, where instead of wealthy industrialists bullying everyone and causing untold economic harm with their monopolistic activities it's instead a union with near monopoly control that causes a bunch of harm bullying others to try to get them to get in line. Which goes to prove that monopolies are bad at both ends of the spectrum and can both harm tons of people.
Yes, and the problem is that in the longer run the unions will only help keeping the salaries down. The salaries for higher paying jobs (like engineers) in Sweden are falling behind many other EU countries. If the unions in Sweden continue on like this, then in another 50 years or so Sweden will be on the virge of being a 3rd world country salary wise.
I wouldn't be surprised if union members in those European countries are some of the people buying those Teslas.
With 1 in 4 sales they'd almost have to be.
No, they drive diesels and keep shouting "Hydrogen is just around the corner!".
@@DzeiEidz
What do you mean with "1 in 4"??
I hope Elon thanked the union for the free advertising.
So the unions would prefer Chinese vehicle imports over locally made??? That's the level of intellect they bring to the table. People want EVs, so they will buy them no matter what.
There are no cars being made locally in Sweden anymore. Semi-trucks yes, but not passenger cars.
This is crazy !
If an employer pays well, treats it employees with dignity and respect, there is no need for a union. A non union factory is a threat to organised labour’s power and funding so they seek to force themselves onto workers who don’t need or want them.
Gobshite
If there is no possibility of a union, you get just minimum wages. Just look at American southern states with low low wages. Why Elon musk hates unions.why investors hate union because unions help egalitarian society and cut down on Elon musk's demands to board of directors to issue him 44 billion dollar ? worth of Tesla OPTIONS at rock bottom prices.
And what if the employer doesn't pay well and treats employees like trash? You say a non-union factory is a threat to labor. What's obviously true is that corporations view Unionized factories as a threat to the way they do business -- because they want to be able to do anything they want to their workforce.
But they don't
Unions have to reorganize otherwise they will be pre-historic....so sad
For a car that looks so wonderful, the shame is that people will resent someone else having one!! This is probably why people are vandalising the charging stations for Teslas!!
A+Tesla. Thanks again Sam.
Thanks again!
Mr Viking,I struggle with what to believe about EV sales according to you tube,there’s sooo many conflicting stories, I love your uploads,just a little discombobulated 😢, . Tonez New Zealand.
I'm a Kiwi who lives in California. Sam is pretty good, overall. Check out Dillon Loomis as well.
Sam gets some early info on the international market that doesn't make it to podcasters here in the US. I verify what he tells us, and a lot of the time he's on track.
Unions played a useful role from 1880 to 1960, but as technology has developed exponentially, unions have paralyzed innovation. Accordingly, since 1970, American innovation has come from Asia, and when Deng revolutionized China, since 1990, American manufacturers have been moving production to Chinese subcontractors. Today, US manufacturing has been gutted. Tesla has the highest American content of any auto manufacturer in the US, by far!
In the US, Tesla is opening up its charging network to other manufacturers. The government-funded chargers are down 30% of the time, cost more to use, cost 5 times as much to manufacture, and if you buy a Porsche Taycan and can't go on a road trip, why did you buy it?
Tesla have over 50% of the US EV market and that percentage is growing! So much for the legacy-auto Tesla-killers.
IF Metall is in big trouble. They're no longer publishing the financials on the retirement funds they manage. The 40% drop in US treasuries may be the reason.
www.smwnpf.org/about-the-fund/history-of-the-fund/
As soon as consumers heard legacy automakers saying they don’t want EVs consumers responded. I guess it’s just human nature to rebel against those trying to speak for us or tell us what we want or don’t want.
This is not a loophole. It is the law as intended.
What about how regulators in Europe and around the world and going to introduce laws for car companies to have (at least some) physical driving controls instead of everything on the one screen like Tesla. In most countries you can get fined for using a smartphone while driving but its legal in a Tesla to use the main screen to control all functions of the car.
I read they are going to require separate traditional stalk controls for indicators, headlights, and wipers. They will also require a speedo in the traditional position, and a few other things.
Anyway when these laws come in, Teslas will not be compliant with latest regulations, and they will get poor safety ratings. Meaning they will lose their resale value even more, and insurance companies will avoid insuring them. They are doing scientific studies now, and when it is proven that Tesla's system is more dangerous and leads to more driver distraction, its not going to be good. This could by why they are trying to move current models.
Interesting to note. Toyota just released the new all electric BZ4X, and nearly all the controls are traditional including climate control, separate speedo, stalks and steering wheel buttons for most tasks.. It has a screen but mainly for GPS. All driving controls are traditional.
@@tubester4567 I am sure in those countries Tesla will just stop selling and let China have the market. The switches and buttons will stop functioning just after you buy the China built car, but it will be compliant and get great safety ratings. BYD loves this idea. Plz ban Tesla so BYD can move in.
@@tubester4567 Totally agree.
Tesla is bragging about their safity, but in reality Tesla cars are involved in more accidents then any other car brand
No, it is not how the law was intended. It was how it was written. Big difference.
The Union ruined the British car industry
True. But terrible British management also gets 1/2 credit. Teamwork !
There is no good or bad advertising, there is only advertising. No advertising is death. The best advertising is free advertising, Controversy keeps people interested.
tell that to budlight lol
Nah, there's DEFINITELY BAD Advertising. Plenty of companies sunk their products with Bad Ads.
VW owned CUPRA (+189.1%) seems to be the fastest growing BEV brand in Sweden, though.
@scrumpti0us true
Wy is Sweden one of the best countries in the world to live in? Specially for workers. Or should I saw WAS? Because workers have been fighting for their rights. Lets continue! Tax the rich!
? Unions do never fight for taxing any person.
Swedish company NEVS/SAAB (designed the 'Emily GT' EV) must make a deal with EV Electra in order to mass produced their brilliant hub motor EVs. Where is the power union when you need it.
Hub motors are trash for so many reasons that it is not worth it to explain. DEAD TECH.
Why is Tesla being the only one being targeted?
Tesla are innovative and successful, bullies hate that.
These unions are a bit like the Mafia, they want a cut for doing nothing, but unlike the Mafia the unions have to go down a legal route, rather than heavy hand you into paying.
Tesla is big enough to fight back, and having listened to Elon's biography, there is no way he would back down. With a leader that driven, it galvanizes others to do the same. The unions were always going to fail.
Because for them Elon is right wing and right is wrong. So, must sabotage. That is the socialist way.
For being the largest "non-union" auto manufacturer .
Because Tesla has money and does not give it to the Union. I am sure if Tesla just cut the Union a $100 million check, it would all go away overnight.
Politics might be playing a part.
The premise of a union is the assumption that the company is not being fair to the worker. There might not be so.
Consumers are choosing the smart purchase of the world's best value proposition in terms of efficiency, functionality and performance for the price. Shaking their heads about unions trying to use strikes as a method to protest against a vast majority of Tesla workers not wanting inferior collective agreements instead of their current contract with Tesla. Unions once had an important role in getting a balance between owners and employees. But in modern times, the owners want to provide an attractive working environment and compensation to attract and retain the best work force. So now unions for the most part are just a club struggling to add any value to society and fighting to keep their antiquated structures alive.
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What planet are you living on dude?
They will offer better wages/conditions until the Unions are no more and then the benefits will be decreased.
We see it all the time.
Maybe if you have some Ninja skillset what you say could apply but for bolting together vehicles not so much.
@oldbloke204 which millennium are you living in dude? 😂 The job market, corporate social responsibility and the advent of online real-time communications and information sharing has made a dramatic change in behavior of employer's, employees and consumers. AI is the next quantum leap right on the horizon. Have Unions kept up with the times? Not seeing that.
Yankistan brain
@@oldbloke204be a skilled worker and you won’t have too worry about any union.
@@nguyenhanh9479 So you're trying to say that people who bolt cars together are skilled workers then?
I was very good at my job but there are very few jobs where someone else can't do the same job and will likely do it for less if they're in a tougher financial decision.
Those wages and conditions were also likely there in the first place due to Union action.
If you think that any business/corporation cares very much about it's workers then you need to open your eyes imo.
Afternoon mate
When the refresh Model Y (Juniper) will lunch it is Game Over.
One hundred years ago unions were important to protect workers against abuses by large companies. Now those important protections are universally provided by governments. Essentially unions now have very little value to workers. As a result union efforts primarily seek SELF-PRESERVATION!! This is actually counterproductive to the interests of workers.
I've despised unions since the days of Arthur Scargill.
Many of the EU unions missions has switched from necessary improvements for workers to improvement of the Union's cash flows and revenue! The only reason for IF Metall in Sweden to strike is to force a functioning and fair paying company like Tesla is to get agreements that states that include "the middleman" IF Metall to handle some of the workers money/insurances, pensions, additional healthcare and other benefits. All payed by customers and Tesla.
I would say that the Union have not been successful in showing Tesla that joining is the best for all parties. Trying to punish Tesla into this is probably not a wise idea
Tesla sold 5400 vehicle in germany in Feb 2023 if that is up 142% then they only sold 3800 in January; That doesn't even start to even up losses of sales in the USA and China. So as you'd expect the stock is dropping like a stone
Thanks for content. I know Tesla is investing in social events on all these countries. Tesla should spend more on these events to gain public support.
Thanks Sam for keeping us up on the pulse of what's going on in Scandanavia and Europe. Very interesting. I tend to think that European Unions are better than American ones, but here, the facts are not good in relation to the union tactics.
Customers in Sweden have spoken. Tesla over unions.
Factory human labor is in a steep decline and has become a thing of the past.
In ten years, yes, in some places, only a few. But they are still a big force until the robots take over completely. In Tesla factories, I would say 85% of the remaining warehouse and factory jobs will gone in 3-5 years. They are hiring the techs to manage human form factory robots now. The warehouse jobs will go quicker as lifting and moving is simpler.
Perhaps one consideration is that perhaps people want to buy a Tesla now because if the Union does win - Tesla prices may go up?
The unions are acting like the mafia imho, so this is clearly about power rather than anything else.
The reason it’s such a good product is why everybody wants to buy it and there’s nothing you can do about that because nobody wants to buy products that fall apart of the three or four years and cost of fast fortune to keep running. That’s why everybody gets out of a car With five or six years that has a ICE engibe
Calling all insecure, loudmouth, crybaby, know-it-alls!
The model Y is the best selling SUV in the USA 2023!!
That means Chinese branded BEV sales are down significantly
I'm not anti-union in general, but I think IF Metall are doing more harm than good to themselves in the long run by handling the situation the way they do. The sympathy strikes at unionized damage repair shops have lead to many Tesla owners not being able to repair their crashed cars, which doesn't affect Tesla as a company at all, but rather their customers who (in many cases) bought their cars long before the strike began. I thought the fear of not being able to repair ones car would discourage swedes from bying Teslas, but apparently not.
The one thing that I fear Tesla might have a hard time getting around is the recent sympathy act which prevents Tesla from connecting new supercharger stations to the grid. That doesn't only affect Tesla negatively, but EV owners and the green transition in general.
Great news Sam
Thanks Mate!
It's sad that a place I thought was very forward thinking would allow A union to extort a company is beyond disbelief and its displayed for the world to see. I always admired Swedish people for the ingenuity this is crazy it sure makes me look at them through a whole new lens! Only the Swedish people could fix this I'm pretty sure no person from Sweden would be happy if Russia invaded and made them Into a communist country but they will allow a Union to go against what the workers want and demand for a company to comply thats just wrong!
Here is the thing. I am Swedish, I am a union member, I support IF Metall, and I own a lot of Tesla shares.
Interesting type of advertising; most professional dislike unions so that's the demographic that would support Tesla sales!
Considering Tesla's CEO gave himself a salary of 50 billion and pays factory workers in China about $3 an hour (I believe, could be wrong) and would be in Mexico as well, I can see the union's point. Non-union factories push all the pay to the top executives and then there is a race to the bottom in pay for the lower jobs. So I agree with unions and tariffs. Nevertheless, I agree with the host that some tactics should not be allowed. I also wonder if the unions and not behind some of these "environmental" terrorists attacks in Germany as well.
Most people dont need to own cars. But they are wrappers and also give a shit about the environment. They peetend to care - but that's just to cover up that they do not.
Makes me glad tgat I am not a part if it and figured out gow to use public transport, carsharing, rent-a-car, taxis smoothly and overall so cheap that I only pay 1/8th of what someone has to pay for owning a car. Money that I can use in a better way.
Sam, why not read about why unions are important for IMPLOYERS in Sweden?
Swedish legislation is lacking some important stuff regarding employers in the country, because the thought is that the different unions manage these things.
In many countries they have some kind of minimum wages, but Sweden hasn't as the unions manage these things.
I don't know how other countries watch the security for the employees, but in Sweden this is a task for the union. And one of the employees must(!) keep track of the security when working. This person must NOT be member of the union. Nobody must be member of the union if they don't want to.
If the company has an agreement with a union, the employees have a couple of insurenses that are outside of the normal insurances people have.
Then a small amount of the money are put into the pension system.
If the employers don't want to sign agreements with the unions, then the government will be forced to change some laws to make a number of insurances mandatory. Because what do you do if a person will get hurt and can't go on working for the rest of his life, and he has no insurance...
In Sweden people aren't used to have all kind of insurances, they just think that the system works as it always has.
Sam, so you mean that the taxpayers have to take care of the Tesla workers when something happens? I just wonder how you think!
Wow… I think less of Sweden’s government and courts now, not to mention their bullying, toxic union movement. Go Tesla… End the tyranny of totalitarian unions one car at a time.
GDP per hour worked (GDP constant 2017 international $ at PPP) in 2023: Sweden 70$; USA 70$; AUS 59$. Maybe Unions are not that bad?
Japanese have a Samurai code that they follow, honesty and thoughtful treatment of their employees, have allowed them to keep unions at bay, Musk is in no way predisposed to these values ergo I believe Unions to be necessary for fair treatment at Tesla.
Thanks Sam, that is good news for the environment and Tesla investors!
Unions don't bring any good they are close to terrorist groups
Tesla could stop the sales slump by making pink the default color because people who cant change their oil or brake pads would love rhat color
If you think it is bad now. Just wait until Tesla starts using robots? In Norway Tesla offered free recharges for life?
There protecting there livlihoods
I like the Teslas, Ubers, any disrupters to the Union, Taxi, Dealer Franchise, wholesale distributors, local and federal government mafias who’ve gotten their noses under the tent.
You are completely on the spot here! The unions here in Sweden are very strong, people are close to religious about them. If You are about to mention anything that could sound like critique of a union it’s like to curse in church! You will lose workmates immediately. About Tesla: They are everywhere now. I live in the center of Stockholm and if I lean out the window I see one parked Model X Plaid on one side of the street and one Model S Plaid on the other. Model Y and 3 are about as common as Volvo 244 in the nineteenseventies; everywhere! You remember that Volvo was a swedish brand that everybody owner and wanted to own? The people have embraced Tesla just as if they are Volo or SAAB here. They don’t care about the IF Metall blockade. 😂
Tesla is turning into a 1920s version of ford
Hey Viking, will you be doing a video on LUCID anytime soon?
Will unions and the establishment lose influence from this point onwards? Curious what others think.
I absolutely love how sweden and german unions & organisations keep getting fookin ratioed 😂, following this shit on twitter & always getting a laugh at the stories
In February (YoY) EU car sales +10.1%, HEV +27.4%, BEV +18.4% and Tesla +15.2%. Tesla growth in Europe is still behind the trend.
In Germany (+5.4% overall):
"VW Golf (+32.6%), Passat (+54.9%), Opel Astra (+214.2%)." ...
"Note BEV sales drop -15.4% year-on-year to 27,479 and 12.6% share vs. 15.6% a year ago. This has a lot to do with Tesla falling -21.7% this month." ...
"The Tesla Model Y surges 18 spots on January to land at #2, a ranking it also held a year ago in February 2023. However this month it is down -16.1% year-on-year which could signal a plateauing of its sales."
Tesla is in #11 spot on overall sales chart with 2.8% market share (practically Model Y, as nothing else sells in Germany).
Thus Tesla's Germany sales seems to follow abyssmal China sales downturn (China weekly registrations have been 20-33% down YoY from start of February).
Thanks for your comment based on realuty.
(Sam and other Tesla boys here just left the chat..)
When robots will replace all humans in the car industry ... what will unions do ? Unions are still fighting the early 1900's war, they should move to the 21st century and redefine wealth redistribution rather than salary compensation.
The union is abusing it's power. They can strike when companies are not treating their workers fairly, but using this tactic to force workers to join their union is completely unacceptable.
IF Metall is not forcing anyone to join their union.
@@JanBruunAndersen We just heard tesla workers being bullied to join their union.
Isn't Tesla, like all the other EV manufacturers are laying off people!
No! Tesla sales , like overall EV sales are growing 30+% per year. They are hiring as much as they can!
Is does not Sell more, because there is no model 2
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Money talks. People save money buying a Tesla.
Bring on the robots
The Unions in Sweden are 100% socialists. LO the head union of IF Metall is the founders of the Swedish socialist party that governed Sweden for about 70 years. LO and IF metall gives millions every year to the socialist party. In return the socialist party made the laws in such a way that it was mandatory to be a part of the union. If you aren’t a part of the unions then the unions can strike and call out every company that in sympathy strikes against you.
For many liberals and conservatives in Sweden this is a corrupt system. So many from then center and right supports Tesla.
Most employees in Sweden are have a collective bargaining agreement, not by choice but by force.
Sweden workers therefore have better living standards than their American counterparts. Open your eyes...
If there were never unions in the U.S., the average worker today would be working 80 hours a week at minimum wage with no benefits. Unions are necessary to keep businesses in line.
@@thewolfdoctor761 no u imbicile - those people would go another jobs and such employer would go bankrupt and in its place two instead of 1 would enter the market .
@@thewolfdoctor761 don’t know anything about US unions so can’t comment on that. We have a totally different working culture I Sweden and you guys never had to deal with socialism.
If it is a problem, yes! But in Sweden its not so NO! The problem in Sweden are IF Metall. They try to force workers to join even if they dont want to. Its not a law in Sweden to join!@@thewolfdoctor761