Amidst the contrasting narratives surrounding the continued strike towards Tesla in Sweden, there’s one group that has largely remained silent — Tesla’s workers themselves. And if a latest publish from what seems to be a Tesla worker is any indication, it could seem that the corporate’s staff are getting fairly exasperated with the union’s ongoing strikes.
There are largely two contrasting arguments within the escalating battle between Tesla Sweden and IF Metall. The union claims that it’s combating to safe a collective settlement with Tesla for the sake of the corporate’s staff. Tesla, however, has claimed that it already provides “equal or higher agreements than these coated by collective bargaining.”
An opinion piece revealed in Nerikes Allehanda (NA), a day by day newspaper in Sweden, urged that Tesla workers are getting annoyed as a result of no person appears to be listening to the people who find themselves really working for the electrical car maker. The piece’s creator clarified that Tesla staff are afraid, not of the electrical car maker, however of the union.
Following is a translation of the Tesla worker’s opinion piece (translated utilizing Google Translate).
“Why is no person listening to us who work at Tesla? You learn that 130 automotive mechanics have gone on strike. The very fact is that nobody in Örebro has gone on strike in any respect.
“Are we afraid? Completely not for our employer. Are we afraid of IF Metall? Sure, we’re afraid of the union. I’ve obtained threats of dismissal from A-kassa. They’ve written that I’m a traitor who doesn’t get up for my colleagues, and many others.
“I get pleasure from my job. The truth is, Tesla is the perfect employer I’ve ever had. I used to work at one other workshop that had a collective settlement, the place we had been a lot worse off, which is why I selected Tesla.
“I selected Tesla as a result of I need to be a part of and contribute to a greener transition. Tesla is the automotive firm that’s chargeable for the most important a part of the inexperienced transition in Sweden, and I’m happy with it.
“Why does IF Metall proceed to threaten us on a regular basis simply because we democratically select to not have a collective settlement? It’s really us service technicians (not automotive mechanics) who are not looking for a collective settlement.
“The union threatens to not clear our amenities. Are we then to work in dust and distress? Is it IF Metall’s agenda to ensure we really feel unhealthy at work? If Metall and their LO chairman, who thinks it’s higher that we’re unemployed than that we’re higher off with out a collective settlement.
“Allow us to 137 service technicians vote on a collective settlement as an alternative. Let democracy have its approach. Is it the case that democracy doesn’t exist in Sweden and within the commerce unions anymore?”
The battle between Tesla Sweden and IF Metall doesn’t appear to be approaching its finish but. Only recently, IF Metall famous that it was trying to cease car manufacturing at Giga Berlin, since a Swedish firm that produces aluminum profiles for the Mannequin Ys within the plant has develop into concerned in a sympathy strike and blockade. For the reason that profiles are essential for the Mannequin Y’s crash security, the manufacturing of the car would get disrupted as soon as the sympathy strike’s results develop into evident.
IF Metall strike normal Veli-Pekka Säikkälä described the technique. “There will probably be severe disruptions in manufacturing, and that’s in fact the goal… With out that element, you can not ship the automotive… There’s a very excessive danger that there will probably be severe disruptions in manufacturing, and that’s, in fact, the aim for us to get Tesla to signal a collective settlement,” he mentioned.
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