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Sweden’s Tesla blockade is spreading — Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix chargi...::Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix charging points as the labor dispute rages on.

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[-] MondayToFriday@lemmy.ca 108 points 1 year ago

Three days later, on November 20, the Seko union, which represents postal workers, will stop delivering letters, spare parts, and pallets to all of Tesla’s addresses in Sweden. “Tesla is trying to gain competitive advantages by giving the workers worse wages and conditions than they would have with a collective agreement,” said Seko’s union president, Gabriella Lavecchia, in a statement. “It is of course completely unacceptable.”

Interesting that it is legal to withhold mail. In many countries that would be a crime.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 61 points 1 year ago

There are many ways to legally do this. They may just adhere to regulations more strictly. Where before they would bend the rules to help out.

They might just schedule Tesla's mail for the end of the day and be extra "careful" that day. Oops, there wasn't enough time to deliver their mail! Maybe after a few days of a customer's mail building up, there's a rule saying the customer has to come in and get it themselves. Following all the rules exactly will fuck up any system because they are rarely created with overall productivity in mind.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

"This parcel is kinda sus and looks like bomb parts. Regulations says to fill form A123 and wait for ministry that no longer exists fill form B456. Whatever, regulation says so."

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

I wonder if the difference is in refusing to deliver, but allowing pickup

[-] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

But who will pick up, if nobody want to work at tesla?

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Elmo can come pick it up himself.

[-] RealJoL@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

Probably pretty hard to punish your entire work force. Next they could start boycotting you for punishing them. Or maybe their tariff contract may also cover this as legal strike action.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

They don't withhold, they just don't deliver.

Maybe Tesla even can send their employee to pick up letters and stuff. Right, nobody want to work at Tesla. Well, tough luck.

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry but what's the difference between intentionally not delivering and withholding? Semantics?

[-] elauso@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

To me it seems pretty clear: withholding means you don't get your mail delivered and cannot fetch it yourself at the post office, while "not delivering" means just that: you don't get your mail delivered.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

It's still available to pick up from a post office, they just don't do last mile delivery

[-] WallEx@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I think if you don't open the mail and only withhold it from being delivered, so not destroying it, it's morally fine. That doesn't say anything about laws though ^^

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