COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Sweden’s Transport Workers’ Union said on Wednesday it will stop collecting waste at Tesla’s workshops in Sweden as of Sunday Dec. 24 in a sympathy action with other workers on strike.
The electric vehicle producer faces a backlash in the Nordic region from unions and some pension funds over its refusal to accept a demand from Swedish mechanics for collective bargaining rights covering wages and other conditions.
“This type of sympathy action is very rare. We are using it now to protect the Swedish collective agreements and the safety of the Swedish labour market model,” President of the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union, Tommy Wreeth, said in a statement.
“Tesla can’t ignore the norm on the Swedish labour market,” he added.
The strike will begin unless Tesla signs a collective bargaining agreement with Swedish union IF Metall, the Transport Workers’ Union said.
(Reporting by Louise Breusch Rasmussen, editing by Terje Solsvik)
