Except most American automakers besides Tesla seem to have very strong unions. Which are also possibly more effective at maximizing their members wages than the unions in Europe.
Of course they failed to force the 32 hour workweek during the negotiations over the last few months but UAW workers seem to get more vacation days than Volvo in addition to much higher wages (and profit sharing bonuses etc.)and pensions.
did you mean the 40 or 48 hour workweek?
Instead they ended up negotiating higher 20-60% wages and improving some other benefits but no reduction in working hours.
But in my opinion, the overtime demand was just a "duck"[1]. Something easily negotiated away so that the union and company could meet in the middle. It's standard procedure in negotiations to make ridiculous demands so that you don't have to negotiate away non-ridiculous demands.
I’m not sure how is that different from the UAW in the US? They do all of those things and seem to be as or even considerably more successful than European unions at achieving those things.
This was all achieved through an agreement with the union.
Also it’s not like anyone working in non union factories owned by Japanese, European manufacturers or Tesla are earning anything close to the minimum wage anyway.