Swedish metal union threatens to strike at Tesla (TSLA)
Members of Swedish metal workers’ union, IF Metall are threatening to call for a strike at all in all seven cities where Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) operates service centers due to salary and pension concerns.
Around 90 percent of employees are covered by a collective bargaining agreement in Sweden, where, over the past year, working conditions at major international companies have become a major topic of discourse.
underscore their role in upholding the Swedish model by ensuring fair and uniform terms for all. On the other hand, opponents argue that emerging enterprises in the contemporary job market require greater flexibility than what these agreements currently provide.
“This dispute concerns our members’ salaries, pensions and insurances. In a broader sense, it also concerns the rules of the entire Swedish labour market. Companies should not be able to gain competitive advantages by giving employees worse conditions than they would have with a collective agreement,” said IF Metall’s representative Veli-Pekka Säikkälä in a statement.
Tesla's service centers are located in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Helsingborg, Örebro, Norrköping, and Linköping. As of Wednesday, the company had not released any public statements concerning the potential strike.
Shares of TSLA are down 4.48% in afternoon trading Wednesday.
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