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Klarna also had a breakdown with unions but ultimately signed an agreement in the last minute before strikes started to happen.

What makes Tesla different from Klarna and Spotify is that Tesla has a global policy to never sign. So Tesla’s Swedish company is prohibited by Tesla to do any kind of negotiation, and that escalates things drastically.

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> What makes Tesla different from Klarna and Spotify

The "heritage" between the three is also different. Klarna and Spotify are/was Swedish, they know what going up against a union means, and it often involves going against multiple unions as they all help each other.

Tesla clearly have no idea what they were going against, as what is happening now is such an obvious fallout from not understanding the country they're operating in.

By this time we cannot say anymore they have no idea. Now it became pure stubbornness, and we can all see how stubbornness goes.

Indeed, and they are lucky that it hasn’t spread to Germany yet, as the Germany unions are even stronger than the Swedish ones and Tesla has a factory there…

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