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.
This doesn’t really ever happen in America, or really most other countries, which is why Musk is so confused.
In fact, sympathy strikes aren’t protected labor organizing activity in the US, precisely because they work. (That is to say, a company can fire someone for sympathy striking. AFAIK the closest thing to sympathy strike activity that’s allowed is, a union worker is protected if they refuse to cross another strike’s picket line and in their refusal fail to perform their job duties, but that mostly affects Teamsters doing delivery work (so, union truckers can refuse to deliver to a company whose workers are striking if doing so would cross the picket line).)
In fact, sympathy strikes aren’t protected labor organizing activity in the US, precisely because they work. (That is to say, a company can fire someone for sympathy striking. AFAIK the closest thing to sympathy strike activity that’s allowed is, a union worker is protected if they refuse to cross another strike’s picket line and in their refusal fail to perform their job duties, but that mostly affects Teamsters doing delivery work (so, union truckers can refuse to deliver to a company whose workers are striking if doing so would cross the picket line).)