- "whose role will be to ensure that the “political, regulatory and fiscal frameworks” in the Nordics “support Tesla’s mission.”
LOL. Lets hire 1 person to change the politics in 4 countries to support a foreign private company…
(Also… … The primary point in all the nordic models is that politics shouldn’t interfere in the labour market.)
It’s ridiculously amusing to see the world’s richest man attempting to throw money at a problem that can’t be solved with money. I like it a lot.
Funny thing is it can be fixed with money. If only he gave it to the workers instead of lobbyists.
Ok honestly the article doesn’t speak of the demands or offers. But anyway, what kind of agreement? That doesn’t really say anything otherwise. I did assume it was a monetary issue since it almost always boils down to more money even when you speak of benefits. More vacation, more sick days, more insurances, more hours, less hours, it all means money in the end.
All Tesla will achieve is destroying their reputation. Going after our unions is a boneheaded idea that will never work.
I genuinely don’t understand what Musk considers his leverage here.
It seems like he has… none?
He lives in the US and like many Americans, believes he can get away with the awful practices he could back home.
Doesn’t even understand the mentality between the populations is completely different.
In Norway, the unions are beloved by all. Union busting just isn’t a thing you can do.
I’m legitimately confused, is he trying to hire a Nordic version of an American lobbyist?
You’d think they’d hire the expert before entering the market?
They did not and it is fucking hilarious. One instance is their spokesperson admits to a jounalist they have no clue at all what is legal and what is not when it comes to getting scabs. Which they 100% tried to get. “But we are only getting swedish scabs, not foreign scabs! Oh, not allowed? Really? Ehhhh…”. Then a letter gets leaked by one of Teslas lobbyists trying to suck up to the minister of labour market (thats a literal translation, not sure what its called in english), and its all like “I dare wish for a short audience with you sire”, basically. Cringe stuff. The minister of labour markets is the party leader of the liberal party, and has the backbone of a bacteria, celebrates working with the far right now because that gives him a minister post. Weakest liberal in the world, and he fucking ignores the letter. Hahahha
The interview with the spokesperson: https://da.se/2023/10/teslas-svar-om-strejkbrytare-ar-det-verkligen-olagligt-att-flytta-personal-inom-landet/ On the lobbyist: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/l3PQdM/tesla-forsokte-paverka-regeringen-via-mejl
I mean Twitter currently only has one site reliability engineer so being prepared is clearly not a priority for Musk.
I very badly want this to be true, but I simply cannot imagine it. I think my company might have more SREs than Twitter has employees, but I cannot see how they could do global ops like that. Or even just California ops.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because something similar happened in March, taking down links and images across timelines for around an hour. Twitter blamed that on an “internal change that had some unintended consequences” before Platformer reported the bug occurred because of a mistake by the site’s single remaining site reliability engineer, who was operating solo after Musk instituted massive layoffs.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000170/x-outage-link-error-message-broken
It was true in March at least.
Sign the collective agreement!
I’d like my millions in cash, please.
