Swedish postal workers have joined the ongoing strike against Tesla, sparked by the carmaker's refusal to sign a collective bargaining agreement, leading to disruptions in deliveries and escalating tensions in the labour dispute.
Solidarity action (also known as secondary action, a secondary boycott, a solidarity strike, or a sympathy strike) is industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in a separate corporation, but often thesameenterprise, group of companies, or connected firm.
In Australia,Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United States, and the United Kingdom, solidarity action is theoretically illegal, and strikes can only be against the contractual employer.
The term “secondary action” is often used with the intention of distinguishing different types of trade dispute with a worker’s direct contractual employer. Thus, a secondary action is a dispute with the employer’s parent company, its suppliers, financiers, contracting parties, or any other employer in another industry.
A postal strike doesn’t seem to meet any of this criteria.
In the United Kingdom, sympathy strikes were outlawed … repealed … outlawed … The laws outlawing solidarity strikes remain to this day.
It’s a Wikipedia article about the general concept of solidarity action. The postal strike is “industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in a separate corporation”.
In any case, this discussion has taught me that Sweden is very different in ways I’d never realized. I appreciate the education and will view Sweden related news in a different light from now on.
It’s very clear that our cultural differences will have us continuing to talk past each other. You see this as free market, I see it as mob action against free market.
Your free market needs government protection, then its not a free market…
Its not that we have different opinions, which we have.
Its that you dont underdtand what a free market is.
In a true free market the negotiation of the work market happens between the employer and the worker, which is the case for sweden and not for the US (i assume you’re american).
Its not a free market if the governemt deals with the employer in the place of the worker…
And with a real free market strikes/boycotts are a tool that workers can use.
I see “rule of law” as the guiding structure over mob action. If there is no baseline of law then whoever gathers the largest mob runs over everyone else, as seems to be the case in Sweden.
“Free Market” is a term that generally refers to the economics of cost and trade, not to mob extortion and enforced conformity.
It’s ironic that you refer to the negotiation between employer and worker when that is precisely what is not happening in Sweden.
An informative link, thank you.
A postal strike doesn’t seem to meet any of this criteria.
It’s a Wikipedia article about the general concept of solidarity action. The postal strike is “industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in a separate corporation”.
Okay, but it was a link you provided?
In any case, this discussion has taught me that Sweden is very different in ways I’d never realized. I appreciate the education and will view Sweden related news in a different light from now on.
Sweden is as free market as it gets, we dont like the government getting involved in the market.
It’s very clear that our cultural differences will have us continuing to talk past each other. You see this as free market, I see it as mob action against free market.
Then you’ll be wrong per defintion…
Your free market needs government protection, then its not a free market…
Its not that we have different opinions, which we have. Its that you dont underdtand what a free market is. In a true free market the negotiation of the work market happens between the employer and the worker, which is the case for sweden and not for the US (i assume you’re american).
Its not a free market if the governemt deals with the employer in the place of the worker…
And with a real free market strikes/boycotts are a tool that workers can use.
I have no doubt that is your belief.
I see “rule of law” as the guiding structure over mob action. If there is no baseline of law then whoever gathers the largest mob runs over everyone else, as seems to be the case in Sweden.
“Free Market” is a term that generally refers to the economics of cost and trade, not to mob extortion and enforced conformity.
It’s ironic that you refer to the negotiation between employer and worker when that is precisely what is not happening in Sweden.