The majority of Swedes, according to the findings of a Novus poll, favor the strike currently taking place at Tesla’s (TSLA.O) workshops in the Nordic country over the right to collective bargaining.
Due to its refusal to comply with the demands of the trade union IF Metall, the American automaker is receiving criticism from pension funds and unions throughout the Nordic region. Since October, members of IF Metall have been on strike at Tesla workplaces.
“The union is right to take the fight with Tesla,” stated the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, which commissioned the survey. “A clear majority of Swedes, or 58%, believe that the union did the right thing.” “Only 20% of those who answered believe the union’s industrial action is wrong.”
The disagreement has resulted in sympathy strikes across the Nordic area, an essential market for Tesla, and has also pushed some pension funds to liquidate their shares in the firm.
Tesla has avoided entering into collective bargaining agreements with its approximately 127,000 employees, and Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, has been open about his lack of support for labor unions.
According to SvD, most Swedes responded in a Novus survey that the controversy had decreased their trust in Tesla.
In an interview that the daily cited, Torbjorn Sjostrom, CEO of Novus, stated, “the support for the Swedish model is very strong.”
Employers and unions in Sweden negotiate working conditions and pay with relatively little interference from the government. This is because the Swedish labor market model is based on cooperative labor.
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