Tesla Strike Has US Unions Taking Notes
Elon Musk is locked in a stalemate with a group of Swedish technicians that’s lasted four times as long as the United Auto Workers strike.
It was still dark in Malmö, a coastal city in southern Sweden, when the union men arrived early one winter morning. They filed into a trailer parked on the roadside, donned yellow vests and stepped back out into the cold. A short distance away, a few people hurried across the icy street, wearing parkas imprinted with a familiar name: TESLA. The groups exchanged awkward glances, like neighbors passing in a stairwell. Then the second set shuffled into a low-slung auto repair shop, while the unionists huddled together and sipped coffee as the sun rose. Another day in the first-ever strike targeting Tesla Inc. and its chief executive officer, Elon Musk, was underway.