Thousands of Swedish workers are rallying behind 120 Tesla mechanics. The workers are boycotting Teslas until the company signs a contract. Even postal workers may stop delivering mail.

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    10 months ago

    I think Sweden’s Union culture is especially interesting in the way that they do cross-trade-strikes. Like this article mentions, not only the mechanics who would be affected by the contract are striking. Instead basically anyone providing a service to Tesla stops providing services to them until they submit to the unions. It’s really quite a nice system. I’d seriously consider moving there if it wasn’t so conservative in some other ways…

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      10 months ago

      I usually think of us (swedes) as very progressive. In what way would you consider us conservative?

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        10 months ago

        Like the other commenter assumed, I am talking about the rise of right wingers and xenophobia. Maybe I just read about it a lot and think it’s worse than it is. Seeing as this is also happening where I live, in Germany, I suppose it really isn’t that strong of an argument.

        I do realize you are relatively progressive in a lot of areas like renewable energy, social services etc.

        What are your favorite progressive aspects of Sweden?

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          I see the loud right winged racists as a result on how progressive we are. It’s basically a response to us taking in a lot of foreigners a few years ago. Progress is never a straight line.

          Swedes are really welcoming to new solutions if they are logical and beneficial.

          • Iso 8601 dates are the norm (yyyy-mm-dd). No weird order or backslashes.
          • Electronic payments are basically the only form of payment.
          • early adoption of high speed internet for most homes.
          • parents get 80% of the salary for 390 days (to share) to stay home with young kids.
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          10 months ago

          My experience in Sweden suggest those are a very few online loudmouths, not at all indicative of how a visually diverse group was treated there. In fact, one black American mentioned how awesome it was just to be, and have their skin not be an issue in any wsy.

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        10 months ago

        Could be weed being illegal here, or the increase of xenophobia / right wingers, or both