This also includes the following sympathy strikes:
* Ports will refuse to load Tesla cars
* Post and package delivery denied
* No office/factory cleaning
* Electricians won’t do work on office/factory/superchargers
* Ports will refuse to load Tesla cars
* Post and package delivery denied
* No office/factory cleaning
* Electricians won’t do work on office/factory/superchargers
And if I'm not mistaken, business for Tesla has been pretty big in Scandinavia. I've heard they've got a significant chunk of the market in Norway. No idea if Sweden is the same, but I think Elon's confrontational approach could really hurt Tesla.
... dentists will split your procedure into three sessions
... the pothole on your street. .. it will be enlarged!
So that people can get paid and produce goods and services for their society, obviously.
> If you're powerful enough to shut down a business, what's stopping you from getting whatever you want, regardless of whether it's reasonable?
Laws and contracts and as above the need for money and production, again, obviously.
I mean, the US could have Europe by the balls if it wants to. How much does it cost you all if we pull out of NATO? (I know Sweden is not in NATO.)
Also, the EU countries field, between them and the UK, multiple aircraft carriers, nuclear subs (hunter-killer and ICBM ones), modern militaries (albeit smaller in size than during the cold war) and robust industrial base for basically everything. Surey the US quiting wouldn't be great, but it wpuld be an even worse self inflicted wound than Brexit.
Unless Elon ends up POTUS (after all, in Demolition Man they passed an ammendment to allow Schwarzeneger to be elected, so ehy not?), the US won't do nothing over Tesla whatsoever, now or in the future.
Why would the USA want to remove one of its most effective soft power levers in the global scale? For Tesla? Lol.
For practical purposes, the US also cannot just start a trade war with Sweden; they would have to start it with _the EU_. (You'd think people would've learned this from Trump's nonsensical attempts to make trade deals with individual EU countries.)
Similar reason amazon simply doesn't operate here. Many other companies have learned the hard way: you simply don't fight the system, give fair contracts, and things work out okay.
If you plan on a "normal" employment model where workers get fired sometimes, redundancy is part of your MO, etc... don't locate to France.
If you plan on being union free, don't go to Sweden.
Walking in with declaration that "you can either have McDonald's or you can have your union model," that is so immature. I can't think of another aspect of business where this kind of thinking is acceptable.
Imagine doing this with building permits or whatnot.
This stuff really gets people worked up.
If Tesla doesn't want a Swedish location, they don't have to have one. There's nothing extreme or dysfunctional about Swedish labour norms. It's not France. Even if there were, that's Sweden. Tesla don't have to locate there.
Why are Tesla not prepare for this? It's not like they completely ignore permitting or environmental regs just because they're different from the US.
Tesla live by Chinese rules in Chin. That even includes the major task of making Elon shut the gob.
You want to operate internationally... everywhere is different. Not everywhere is suitable. Choose wisely.
If Tesla eats a major delay because they hadn't anticipated the inevitable... That's on them and it is bad management.
From what I've heard Starship had a lot more input from him personally, and isn't going as well as the Falcon 9 did.
Don't negotiate with unions.
Also, they're famous for being such huge failures in Sweden that the vast majority of workers are covered by them.
And look where it lead them... top 10 of most quality of life rankings.
I suspect he will rather outsource those parts of the company. That way he can claim to not have changed anything but things can just continue.
> The Torslanda Works (or Torslandaverken in Swedish), is one of the largest production facilities of Volvo Cars and is located in Torslanda on the island of Hisingen, about 12 km north west of Gothenburg city centre. The plant marked fifty years of operation on April 24, 2014.[1] under the motto "Increased capacity – for ever-higher quality."
Are we talking about workers here, or about general geopolitics?
Plus everything I've seen about Geely seems to indicate that they're quite hands-off, that's how the group became so successful. I'd be glad to be proven wrong.