Elon Musk doesn't understand Sweden's unions. If he did, he'd work with them
theguardian.com
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What is interesting is how long can the main participant of the unions, in this case IF Metall, hold out. According to them, based on that the strike only affects around hundred workers, the strike fund lasts for approximately 500 years...
Is it really the case? There must be a cost to refusing to do part of your job. It might not be paid directly by them but by the union (in turn with the contributions of all affiliated workers) but it should be more than zero.
A zero cost of such actions may be a part of a collective agreement. What the postal service could do? Cut salaries and risk to become a next target for a strike?
From other standpoint employers and employees are all depend on the system to work. So it makes perfect sense to combine efforts to preserve the system.
You're American, are you? The country where CEOs either do their job or get a golden handshake, as the cliché has it. In what sense do they have to do their job?
Life in Scandinavia is different from the US. There are expectations you have to live up to, and those you have to live up to, but they're not everything. Some expectations are less serious.
So even while being fired does earn them a large sum, succeeding would earn them a greater one. Failure is docked.
Failure to deliver parcels to Tesla won't leave any Swedish postal workers on the street. A tut-tut from the manager, yes, serious consequences no. If the manager has read Tesla's recent job posting for a lobbyist to help subvert Swedish democracy, the tut-tut may well be delivered with a smile and a wink.