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Tesla employees on strike have been threatened with getting fired and revoked benefits, according to Agreement Secretary Veli-Pekka Säikkälä of the metal workers' union IF Metal in Sweden, currently on strike since midnight to Friday.

Tesla Sweden stated before the strike that they would use scabs (see earlier in this thread) and during the strike several people have been crossing the union's strike picket line, which may be strike breaking.
"Organized strike breaking is very unusual in Sweden. It has not been done since the 1920-30s. It is a threat against the entire labor union movement", commented Säikkälä to TT.

TT, the news agency jointly owned by all major newspapers in Sweden, sought Tesla for a comment, again, still without response.

Of course considering Musk's pro-authoritarianism campaigning, anti-labor stance, expression suppression, etc, it would rather be surprised if Tesla didn't choose to violate the laws of labor protection.

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The metal workers' union strike against Tesla expanded 00:01 of the night to today to now encompass work on Tesla-vehicles also outside pure Tesla-automobile repair shops in 15 towns of Sweden.
These 17 workshops continue working on all other vehicles except Teslas.
Currently scheduled next is the sympathy strike blocking unloading of Tesla vehicles off of ships in harbors on November 7 and then additional workshops on November 10.

Tesla continues refusing to comment the strike to major news-media journalists.

Map legend:
How the strike is expanded
[red] Tesla workshops October 27.
[yellow] General workshops November 3.
[blue] Harbors November 7.
[black] General workshops November 10.

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While I was preparing the previous toot, an article was released in English too.
"Strike widens at Tesla Sweden", also covering the topics of strike breakers, sympathy strike and the collective bargaining agreement which is the core of the so-called "Swedish model" of employer/unions-relations and is what Tesla refuses.
sverigesradio.se/artikel/strik…
As Tesla refuses to speak to the press, it's all union representatives speaking in this Public Service radio news piece. Nice PR-strategy, Tesla. :-D

Regarding the intro to the piece, I'll add that another article did specify that 500 people are encompassed by the strike at the 17 workshops.

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Anti-labor Elon Musk's Tesla car company has started rerouting its shipments to Sweden where there is an ongoing strike against Tesla for refusing a collective bargaining agreement and a sympathy strike in four harbors is set to begin tomorrow blocking unloading of Tesla vehicles, so that they now already ship to other harbors.
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Tesla vehicles purchases halted by the 850 drivers-owned "Taxi Stockholm" cab company (which I believe may be the largest cab company in Stockholm) in support of the metal workers' union's strike against Tesla in Sweden for a collective bargaining agreement and employment security.
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Solidarity to the Tesla strike in Sweden was expressed by the metal workers' union IG Metall in Berlin, Germany spokesperson Markus Sievers, saying "We are in solidarity with the Swedish strike and hope that the workers there get their demands fulfilled".
IG Metall are themselves in a long conflict with anti-labor Elon Musk's car company, with over a thousand union members at a "Gigafactory" in Berlin.
Attached picture is from IG Metall's webpage regarding their conflict with Tesla igmetall.de/im-betrieb/ig-meta… in German.

Several more unions have joined the sympathy strikes against Tesla in Sweden, Public Service radio also reports, mentioning as an example that the electricians' union have stated that they will stop performing work such as repairing broken Tesla electric vehicle charging stations and work at Tesla premises throughout Sweden.

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If Tesla circumvents the transport workers' union sympathy strike against unloading vehicles from anti-worker Musk's company in the harbors of Sweden, in sympathy with the steelworkers' strike, by sending the cars through the harbors of Norway instead then the United Federation of Trade Unions in Norway may join the strikes against Tesla.
The union in Norway also states that "we have about 7300 union organized in the car industry, and all of those follow the strike [in Sweden] very closely".

Meanwhile, the transport workers' union in Sweden's central ombudsperson Anders Gustafsson comments the current situation, that "No dockworker in Sweden will touch a Tesla".

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While I was writing the previous toot on the strike against Tesla in Sweden, it was announced that the strikes are expanded by refusal to deliver letters and packages to Tesla by the "Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees" (SEKO), taking effect on November 20, 01:00 local time.
That means no spare parts or components delivered by packages or on pallets.
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Tesla is circumventing the metal workers' union (IF Metall) strike against Tesla in Sweden where one of the several sympathy strikes is a refusal of the Transport Workers' Union to unload any Tesla cars in four major harbors of Sweden.

Tesla circumvents that strike by driving the cars onto regular car ferries. An example given being driving 150 Tesla cars onto a ferry between the major harbors Travemünde, Lübeck, northern Germany and Trelleborg in southern Sweden.

"That can be plugged up too, that would just be to refuse in that case allowing that ferry and to say that since there is a lot of shit onboard, there will be no Swedish docking here, so I think we can handle this pretty reasonably", comments the Transport Workers' Union chairperson Tommy Wreeth (depicted).

Tesla has refused to comment, still.

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Now a seventh union joined the strikes against Tesla in Sweden.
The Swedish Painters' Union announced that the painters at 53 companies "will refuse to have anything to do with" the cars or accessories from Elon Musk's company from November 21, 2023, noon local time, to then later add strikes at an additional 56 companies against the same if the anti-labor Tesla still refuses to reach a collective bargaining agreement with the metal workers' union IF Metall.
The union calls it "massive strike notices without precedent within the [union-]agreements area".
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An eighth union joins the strikes against Tesla in Sweden.
Now, it's the Union of Civil Servants (ST, st.org/english/about-st) which "solely focuses on organizing employees within state agencies" announcing that they will stop all delivery of letters, packages and pallets to Tesla from November 21 at 15:00 local time unless the metal workers' union IF Metall gets a collective bargaining agreement.
This covers the workers at PostNord, as it is owned 60% by the State of Sweden and 40% by the State of Denmark, being the equivalent of e.g. the U.S. Postal Service.
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The strikes against Tesla expand, for a collective bargaining agreement for Swedish metal workers' union members,
now to also cover the company "Hydro Extrusions" in Vetlanda, southeastern Sweden, which is the only to manufacture a type of crash protection aluminium profiles which are used at the Tesla "gigafactory" assembly in Berlin, taking effect from November 24 at 13:00 local time.

The transport workers' union also says they will ask their sibling unions in the Nordic Countries to join the strikes since Tesla is shipping through new routes there to circumvent the strikes.

Tesla continues to use the extremely odd PR-strategy of letting the workers' representatives speak unopposed to and in news-media regarding the strikes, refuses to comment.

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A tenth labor union gives notice of joining the strikes against Tesla in Sweden.
This time it is the Swedish Building Workers' Union ("Byggnads") that goes out in sympathy strike for the metal workers' union IF Metall,
which will cover refusal of performing service, repairs, new construction and reconstruction including within such union agreement areas as regular construction workers like carpenters, glaziers, water, heating and sewage, ventilation, etc.

This additional strike will take effect on November 28 at 06:00 local time unless anti-worker Elon Musk's company has reached a collective bargaining agreement with the metal workers.

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Some of the previously issued strike notices against Tesla activate today in Sweden, in sympathy actions with the metal workers' union IF Metall's strike ifmetall.se/aktuellt/tesla/bac…:
• The Transport Workers' Union expands its sympathy strike to refusing to touch any Tesla vehicles in any of the harbors in Sweden.
• Electricians' Union will refuse to perform repairs at Tesla's 10 premises in Sweden and will not repair the >200 Tesla charging stations in Sweden.
• The Building Maintenance Workers' Union stops cleaning Tesla's facilities.
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Commenting on anti-labor Elon Musk's Tesla's behavior against the employees on strike in Sweden, Dirk Schulze, the regional head of the metal workers' union "IG Metall" in Brandenburg, Germany, where Tesla's Berlin "Gigafactory" is also in conflict against the employees, said that the bosses of not just major corporations but also smaller companies behave like this, that the boss, owner or investors want to see a situation where they say "I am the Lord of the house", but this behavior from employers, in this case Elon Musk and his management does not in any way belong in the 2023; it was outdated already a hundred years ago and even more so today.

Schulze also gave examples of how the work load has resulted in the number of people on sickleave have drastically increased, that they at several departments have more than 30% off work due to sickness, sometimes over 40% and in some few cases over 50%, even though management and the human resources department threatens to fire people when they are sick too long.

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Strike against Tesla in Sweden will be joined by Denmark's largest union, the United Federation of Danish Workers (3F tema.3f.dk/en/3fsprog).
After reports that anti-worker Musk's Tesla is strike breaking by rerouting shipments in Denmark to circumvent the strikes in Sweden, the transport workers' section of the union gives notice it will in 14 days stop handling Tesla cars headed for Sweden and will not handle them until Tesla "sits down at the negotiation table".

"Even if one is one of the richest people in the world, one can't just have your own rules. We have some agreements on the labor market in the Nordic Countries, and one must follow those if one wants to operate here", said 3F Transport's chairperson Jan Villadsen to TV2 in Denmark, adding that "IF Metall [metal workers' union, Sweden] and the Swedish employees are currently fighting in an incredibly important struggle. When they ask for our help, we naturally support".

Tesla continues to refuse commenting.

The Swedish Transport Agency also appeals the court order to strike break for Tesla, citing security reasons.

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Remember, Elon Musk's violations against the productive classes isn't a local thing in some distant places, but a systematic part of the same multinational exploitation organization, to further the opulence of the person that's already the world's richest in money and among poorest in humanity.

Apart from the struggles against Tesla to defend the actual human right to unionize (see e.g. the "International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" to which 171 States are parties, etc) previously covered in this thread both all over Sweden and also in Germany,
here's an arbitrary sample from elsewhere too, from this March 20:
The Gory Truth Behind Elon Musk’s Texas Takeover
youtu.be/jvI5QIiMlcE
perfectunion.us/the-gory-truth…

Don't drive your sibling workers' exploitation. You might not be able to always pick "the best" out of human rights, environmental, etc aspects, but that doesn't mean you must fund the plausibly worst.

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"Danish pension fund to sell its Tesla shares over union dispute"
reuters.com/sustainability/dan…

It is PensionDanmark, regarding the sympathy strike in Denmark by the largest union confederation 3F's transport section, in solidarity with the metal workers' union of Sweden, IF Metall, for the collective bargaining agreement that is the local custom.
It is the largest non-commercial pensions fund in Denmark, founded by unions like 3F together with employers' associations like the "Confederation of Danish Industry" (DI), to manage the pensions funds that are part of the standard collective agreements in Denmark and is owned by its members.

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"Finnish Transport Workers' Union AKT's executive committee decided that AKT also joins with other unions to support Tesla workers.
Blockade of Tesla vehicles starts in all the ports 20th December. That means Tesla vehicles or components destined to Swedish markets are not loaded by dockers."

Read the union's statement in full, in English, here:
akt.fi/uutiset/the-akt-executi…

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Tesla has now appealed the decision by a District Court that the Postal Service in Sweden (PostNord) does not, until a final ruling in the case has been issued, have to order strike breaking against the ongoing strike against Tesla in Sweden, to the Court of Appeals.
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Tesla will NOT get to temporarily while awaiting the courts process break the ongoing strike in Sweden by itself acquiring the license plates for new vehicles from the manufacturer to bypass the normal transportation by the Postal Service on behalf of the Transport Agency, the Göta Court of Appeals made a final ruling today.
The court ruled that the regular processes during strikes should continue to be applied and that the Transport Agency had not been sabotaging or obstructing Tesla, which Tesla absurdly had claimed to the court.

Also announced today is that the transport workers' union will stop dealing with Tesla's garbage starting on Christmas Eve, a complete trash blockade, unless the workers' demands have been met.
That expanded sympathy strike covers all workshops and other premises in the country.

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Have YOU been inspired by Tesla's assault on the "Swedish Model" of collective bargaining as a norm and the remnants of a legacy of strong workers' rights in the Nordic Countries?
Do YOU too hate the universal human right to unionize?
Now YOU can become a lobbyist for authoritarianism-promoting Elon Musk's Tesla, in an area where lobbyism hasn't been a thing until relatively recently and is still frowned upon as immoral. Bah, morals, who need them if you've got a BA in BS, right?

I'm sarcastic, but Tesla isn't. Their job posting for a lobbyist is real.

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Tesla is now fined over a surprise inspection at Tesla premises in Malmö, southernmost Sweden.
"Through letting your employees use forklift on the above-mentioned inspection occasion without having previously issued required written permission for such use, you have violated §19 AFS 2006:5. You must therefore pay a sanction fee", the Swedish Work Environment Authority wrote, issuing a SEK93000 "sanctions fee" (the fine equivalent for that Agency).

"Sanction fees" are stated in that paragraph to range between SEK15000 and SEK150000 and are based on the number of employees.

"AFS 2006:5" is the "Swedish Work Environment Authority's regulations and general advice on use of trucks [=forklifts and similar]".

Tesla have until January 8 to appeal or accept.

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The unions SEKO and ST are not allowed to participate in the court case of Tesla suing the Postal Service to force it to strike break against those unions' ongoing sympathy strikes for the metal workers' union against Tesla in Sweden,
with the Solna District Court justifying its decision by declaring that the SEKO and ST unions did not show "probable grounds for their claim that the matter concerns their rights".

I mean... the whole matter is on the foundation of those unions striking and protection of their right to strike. All of it concerns their rights.

You drunk, court?

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'Danish dockworkers and lorry drivers have stopped unloading and transporting Tesla cars destined for Sweden as Danish labour union 3F on Wednesday joined Swedish mechanics in their strike action against Tesla.
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"We can't allow one man or one company to come and say, I want to do this in another way, you need to change your system. If you want to be here, you're very welcome, but you have to follow the rules," said Jan Villadsen, chairman of 3F Transport.
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Dansk Metal [Denmark's metalworkers' union] is especially working towards getting unions in Germany to join, Nielsen said. Tesla has 11,000 workers in Gruenheide, near Berlin.'
reuters.com/business/autos-tra…
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Public Service radio news report that "the parties to the Tesla-conflict have now met again" regarding the many strikes ifmetall.se/aktuellt/tesla/bac… against Tesla in Sweden which have now expanded to also Denmark, Norway and Finland, but that no progress was made in negotiations.

It has been previously reported that Tesla flat out refused meeting the workers' representatives and that Tesla's CEO Elon Musk would have ordered Tesla Sweden to not reach any agreement whatsoever with the labor unions.

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"In addition to sympathy strikes across Scandinavia, the Swedish Tesla strike is supported by US auto union UAW"
In English, from Public Service radio of Sweden: sverigesradio.se/artikel/u-s-a…
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The strikes against Tesla expand in Sweden.

The "Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees" (SEKO) today issued notice that its members will stop connecting any new, do project planning or maintenance, etc of all of Tesla's charging stations in Sweden, in a sympathy strike with the ongoing IF Metall, metalworkers' union strike.

This new part of the strikes against Tesla will take effect on March 4 at 01:00.

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On anti-worker Elon Musk's car company Tesla's active methods intended to circumvent the since October 27 ongoing metal workers' strike in Sweden and its Nordic-wide sympathy strikes for the normal collective agreement.
sverigesradio.se/artikel/swedi…
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Boss of Tesla in Sweden (TM Sweden) for the first time publicly commented the five months long and ongoing metal workers' strike against the company and the Nordics-wide multi-unions sympathy strikes with their strike yesterday evening.
I deem the statements made incredible, actually not credible, so since I consider it either misinformation or disinformation I can not responsibly and will not aid in further propagating the article's content.
But now you know it happened, after 5 months(!!!).
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The Supreme Court has announced it will not hear Tesla's appeal trying to force the Postal Service (PostNord) to strike break, so the previous ruling stands.
The Postal Service in Sweden has no obligation to deliver to Tesla under solidarity strike with the metal workers' union in Sweden.
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From today the blockade against Tesla in Sweden will be eased by IF Metall, the metal workers' union, due to insurance companies referring work to workshops entirely lacking collective agreements so the union doesn't want the strike to benefit such (strike breaking) businesses, reported Public Service radio.
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The strikes and blockades against anti-worker Elon Musk's Tesla in Sweden will be expanded yet again by another union joining in a sympathy blockade.

This time it is "Unionen" (self-describing as "Sweden’s largest trade union on the private labour market and the largest white-collar trade union in the world") halting all work done at DEKRA Industrial corporation for Tesla, listing as an example of such work the inspection of vehicle elevators at Tesla, on May 14 unless Tesla has reached an deal with IF Metall, the metal workers' union of Sweden.

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There must be a "lex Tesla" (Tesla-law) created in the European Union (EU) to stop corporations from flying in scabs to break actively ongoing strikes like anti-workers Elon Musk's company has extremely abnormally done against the strike by IF Metall, metal Workers' union, as well as many other unions across all Nordic Countries in solidarity, demands the "Left Party" of Sweden now.
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The circumvention of the strike against anti-union Elon Musk's Tesla in Sweden by ordering the license plates for new cars under sympathy blockade at the Postal Service and a private alternative (CityMail) to instead be delivered to other addresses "care of TM Sweden [=Tesla's company in Sweden]" will now be blocked by the labor unions too, as the blockades will be expanded to cover also those addresses from May 24, the unions announced.

Meanwhile, Court of Appeals announced yesterday that it rejects hearing Tesla's case demanding the workers' postal blockade against delivering car license plates for new Tesla-cars in Sweden be broken, tells Tesla such a case should have been in the Administrative Courts system instead of the general courts.

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Related to the ongoing strike breaking nby anti-unions Elon Musk's car company Tesla in Sweden, the pensions fund giant (=major stocks trader) AMF (jointly owned by the labor union "Swedish Trade Union Confederation" (LO) and the major Capitalism-lobbying, etc group "Confederation of Swedish Enterprise") has at its annual meeting decided it demands that the board of Tesla adopt a "Non-Interference Policy" for "upholding the rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining in its operations", incl among other things "non-interference when employees seek to form or join a trade union, and a prohibition against acting to undermine this right or pressure employees not to form or join a trade union",
alongside similar also related to the staunchly anti-unionizaation tech giant Apple.
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IF Metall, the metal workers' union leading strike since October 27, 2023, against Tesla in Sweden across all the Nordic Countries for their normal right to collective bargaining,
has now also sued Tesla for 100000 crowns (≈ $9400) because Tesla has not been giving out information regarding the company's economy and activities as required by the "Employment (Co-Determination in the Workplace) Act" (government.se/government-polic… in English) regardless of whether there is a collective agreement or not.
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The United Auto Workers Union (UAW) in USA "has filed federal labor charges against disgraced billionaires Donald Trump and Elon Musk for their illegal attempts to threaten and intimidate workers who stand up for themselves by engaging in protected concerted activity, such as strikes."
uaw.org/uaw-files-federal-labo…

I'll file this in my thread on the metal workers' union lead strike still ongoing since October 27, 2023, in Sweden and surrounding countries, because the illegal retaliation tactics suggested by Trump are those Tesla publicly stated they would use against the workers in Sweden until they were told that is illegal and the shockingly incompetent bosses didn't know that.
Same struggle, worldwide. Tesla and Trump, same malicious anti-worker metastasization threatening everyone.

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"Swedish union files lawsuit against Tesla over labour conflict"
reuters.com/markets/europe/swe…

Well, I tooted that information when it was actually new on July 2nd (see earlier in this thread) but nobody boosted and now it's a new "news" article from Reuters.

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The postal service is not required to deliver to Tesla under sympathy-blockade by labor unions supporting IF Metall, the metalworkers' union of Sweden, ruled the Solna District Court just north of Stockholm city.
The blockade's purpose is primarily to deny delivery of new car license plates enabling sales of new Tesla vehicles during the very long strike for the workers' right to the normal collective agreement (see earlier in this thread).

Senior Judge Patrik Alm at Solna District Court said it is "Because we are prevented from intervening in the ongoing labor market conflict and if we had ruled as Tesla wants we hold that it would have been the same as intervening in the labor market conflict and we are for constitutional reasons not allowed to do that." (my translation).

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After the Supreme Court rejected anti-workers Elon Musk's Tesla in Sweden seeking to order breaking of the Metal Workers' Union (IF Metall) strike which has been ongoing for 1¼ year now by ordering the postal service to end its sympathy strike blockade on delivering new license plates for new Tesla cars...
...they now brought the same issue as a new case to the Administrative Court in Karlstad (western mid-Sweden) and probably intend to bring it all the way up to the top again, now to the Supreme Administrative Court which is equally Supreme to the other Supreme one, but for administrative cases (i.e. involving the State, municipalities, agencies, etc) while the other Supreme court does criminal law and civil law cases.

IF Metall in on strike since October 27, 2023, because they just want the same collective agreement as is normal for every similar employer in Sweden since about a century.

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Electricians' Union (SEF) reported Tesla to the police for violating the electricity safety law of Sweden, for the second time in a year.
They say in their press release that they have gotten "several indicators that the electric car manufacturer has performed electric installation work at charging stations at another's property without being registered at the National Electrical Safety Board. That Tesla is not registered means that the company is not allowed to perform these installations according to the electricity safety law".

This is of course Tesla trying to circumvent the sympathy strike by the Electricians' Union for the Metal Workers' Union (IF Metall) since October 27, 2023, to get the collective agreement which is norm.

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The Electricians' Union has issued a strike notice expanding the actions against Tesla in Sweden, in support of IF Metall, the metal workers' union.

They "will not engage in work which consists of new installation, service or repair of electrical installations and electricity supply facilities at Tesla's facility in the port of Trelleborg", from February 18, 2025 at 05:00 and they warn that employers ciercumventing the labor action will themselves become subject of labor actions after notice,
according to their press release (in Swedish, via my translation).

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Notice of yet another sympathy strike expansion against Tesla in Sweden was issued today by the Electricians' Union, in support of the now 1¼ years long strike by IF Metall (metalworkers' union) to get the customary collective agreement, whereby their sympathy strikes from February 21 at 06:00 will encompass also members' refusal to perform new installations, service or repairs of the electricity installations at "Supercharger" charging stations in the cities Gränna, Göteborg/Gothenburg, Kungsbacka and Malmö and any such work is furthermore blockaded.
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Tesla wanted to force local electricity companies to break the sympathy strike against Tesla in Sweden by forcing forcing one to do work to attach its new charging station in Ljungby, southern Sweden,
but the CEO (depicted) of the local electricity company Ljungby Energi said that "we don't want to go in and be strike-breakers" (scabs), pointing out that it would violate the constitutional right to strike and that the company's employees members of labor unions.

The case was brought to the Energy Markets Inspectorate which has now set a precedent by ruling that since the company hasn't actually refused to attach Tesla's charging station, which would be illegal, but just delayed doing so until the strike is over it is not illegal and the labor action in sympathy with the metal workers' union, IF Metall whose strike against Tesla in Sweden has been ongoing since October 27 of 2023, can continue,
according to the industrial workers unions' paper "Dagens Arbete" (Today's Labour).