Strike at carmaker prompts sympathy action from dockers, painters and postal workers in fight over Swedish labour model

Elon Musk has decried a wave of “insane” strikes focused on Tesla workshops in Sweden, as workers target the US electric car manufacturer in a strike calling for collective bargaining rights.

In what has been portrayed as the largest fight in decades to save Sweden’s union model from global labour practices, the powerful trade union IF Metall has been leading a strike across eight Tesla workplaces in Sweden for five weeks.

It is the first time workers for the US carmaker have gone on strike and on Thursday, Musk, the tech billionaire and chief executive of Tesla, made his feelings clear, writing on X, formerly Twitter: “This is insane.”

  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
    265·
    1 year ago

    Let’s give NASA that 2.9b for a new program then. That’s a 10% budget increase.

    Hell give me $2.9b and I’ll find people to put us on the moon. Elon didn’t do shit except take tax money, and give it to smart people, while keeping a cut for himself.

    • ApexHunter@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Do it then. Nobody else in the industry seems able to.

      When it comes to space programs and launch costs/waste, SpaceX is at the bottom of the list. Nobody puts stuff in space cheaper than they do. And not by a small margin.

      For comparison, the cost for SLS to launch into earth orbit is $4.1B. TO LAUNCH. Development costs for that program have exceeded $27B. They have been working on it since 2011. It has launched exactly one time over a year ago.

      The entire contract to SpaceX to fully develop and launch a moon lander is less than the cost of launching a single SLS rocket.

      • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        Alright I’ll do it when I get the cheque.

        The stuff they put into space cheaply is actually debris from their poorly built launch pads that ricocheted off a school bus.