Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the Swedish government's Transport Agency over a workers' strike that has blocked the U.S. auto maker's requests for license plates for new vehicles, business daily Dagens Industri reported on Monday.
Effective negotiations happen when both sides bully each other. It is hard to say whether the car company with revenue 16% the size of the entire nation of Sweden, or a few thousand workers, have more bargaining power. I guess the first one to blink loses.
Mostly true, but in this case the unions are the bully and they will win. Perhaps not a bad thing as it seems to work well.
Effective negotiations happen when both sides bully each other. It is hard to say whether the car company with revenue 16% the size of the entire nation of Sweden, or a few thousand workers, have more bargaining power. I guess the first one to blink loses.
The unions will always be the bullies in cases like this. But that is how this system is supposed to work.
And it works quite well, both for employees and employers. I don’t think many employers in Denmark or Sweden would prefer not having unions and CBAs.