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Agreed. If Tesla create new jobs and they pay below average wages, they won't attract workers from other companies. It'll also be harder to retain staff. Surely they'd move towards the average in order to operate normally rather than being forced there by some collective work agreement.

From my understanding of the union model in the Nordic countries, the intention is to push the business to be better, not simply a game of competing adversarial interests

There isn't a legal minimum wage in Sweden, it's collectively argued for by the unions. It's pretty rare to find a company paying poorly against the market in Sweden.

That a valid point, in a perfect world no one would choose to work for a company that pays substandard wages or offers inadequate benefits. But as it stands people need money to pay for food and housing, which can put them in a disadvantageous bargaining position.

With Universal Basic Income perhaps this could be avoided.