Tesla getting owned by Swedish workers isn’t the story.

The story is that 90% of the Swedish workers belong to a union

And only around 11% of American workers belong to a union

The story is the message

What the Swedes have done by blocking delivery of Teslas will reverberate worldwide with workers showing the power of collective action.

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Sadly, saying that the unions are owning Tesla is very premature: there is uneven union membership in the shops themselves and Tesla is taking in scabs (which was basically taboo in Sweden) to the point that they have been able to keep things going so far.

In particular the dockworkers strike is mostly bypassed by Tesla having cars transported by truck from outside Sweden (via ferries or bridge) using foreign truckers.

You can get more details from the union newspaper at da.se (you'll have to translate from Swedish though)

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