Tesla sues Sweden
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Tesla is suing Sweden and the Swedish postal service.
Trade unions in Sweden have blocked Tesla from getting license plates on their cars. Now the company responds with a lawsuit.
Tesla is struggling on many fronts in Sweden
The unions have instructed their members to strike, which has been going on for a month already. The workshop workers' demand for Tesla is to be allowed to sign a collective agreement. Now the dispute has increased from 130 employees to potentially thousands of employees after eight unions agreed to the original demands.
"Other actions currently affecting Tesla include a blockade by dock workers, who are refusing to load or unload Tesla cars at Swedish ports, while garbage collection and all electrical work at Tesla Supercharger stations are also being prevented." Bloomberg
"Very serious"
On top of it all, postal workers in the country feel sympathy for those strikes, and have therefore stopped the deliveries of the signs from the road service to the new Teslas. Musk's company wants the road authorities to directly hand over the signs to them. PostNord AB says that they cannot be blamed for the problems that Tesla describes as "very serious, almost system-threatening." Musk also refers to the union laws in Sweden as "madness."
IF Metall, Sweden's largest manufacturing union, is locked in a battle with Tesla to get a collective agreement for the company's mechanics in Sweden. Metall put the workers on strike on October 27, refusing to service Tesla's cars.
The state postal service refuses Tesla to collect the signs and refuses Tesla to use distribution partners other than PostNord. Tesla has therefore found no other way out than to sue the Swedish postal service.
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