Tesla sues Sweden after striking workers halt delivery of license plates of its new vehicles
ALSO READ: Elon Musk's Tesla plans to invest up to $2 billion in India's plant but with riders On Oct. 27, 130 members of the powerful metalworkers’ union IF Metall walked out at seven workshops across the country where the popular electric cars are serviced, demanding that the carmaker sign a collective bargaining agreement, which most employees in Sweden have.
Tesla has no manufacturing plant in Sweden, but has several service centers. Swedish mechanics stopped servicing Tesla cars since the strike.
The postal workers' union joined others in a wave of sympathy with IF Metall's demands. Dockworkers at Sweden’s four largest ports also stopped the delivery of Tesla vehicles to put more pressure on the automaker to comply with the metal workers’ demands.
Last week, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter which he owns, that it was “insane" that Swedish postal workers were refusing to deliver license plates of new vehicles. IF Metall earlier said that Tesla Sweden has “refused to sign a collective agreement and violates basic principles in the Swedish labor market." It called such agreements “the backbone of the Swedish model." The union also asked for the understanding of consumers, saying, “we are doing this for the sake of our members, to ensure that they have safe working conditions." Dagens Industri wrote that Tesla demanded the district court make sure the Swedish Transport Agency delivered its license plates.Milestone Alert!
Livemint tops charts as the fastest growing news website in the world
