<story><title>Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla brand cars</title><url>https://www.malarna.nu/om-oss/nyheter/20232/pressmeddelande-malarna-stoppar-lackering-av-tesla-bilar/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon23432343</author><text>Welcome to Sweden :)&lt;p&gt;Unions are strong here which in general is a good thing!&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t also fire people just for willing to join or create a union!&lt;p&gt;This is not the U S of A. Were you can get fired for stuff which you have the right to do.&lt;p&gt;I hope the unions will win soon!&lt;p&gt;I my self joined the &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sverigesingenjorer.se&amp;#x2F;in-english&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sverigesingenjorer.se&amp;#x2F;in-english&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rob74</author><text>Good for Sweden! But OTOH, it&amp;#x27;s sad to see the international race to the bottom: Tesla will of course not build a factory in Sweden, where the union representation rate is 88%, but in Germany, which theoretically has a very similar collective bargaining model, but where the rate has fallen to 54% (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Collective_agreement_coverage#By_country&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Collective_agreement_coverage#...&lt;/a&gt;).</text></comment>
<story><title>Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla brand cars</title><url>https://www.malarna.nu/om-oss/nyheter/20232/pressmeddelande-malarna-stoppar-lackering-av-tesla-bilar/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon23432343</author><text>Welcome to Sweden :)&lt;p&gt;Unions are strong here which in general is a good thing!&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t also fire people just for willing to join or create a union!&lt;p&gt;This is not the U S of A. Were you can get fired for stuff which you have the right to do.&lt;p&gt;I hope the unions will win soon!&lt;p&gt;I my self joined the &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sverigesingenjorer.se&amp;#x2F;in-english&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sverigesingenjorer.se&amp;#x2F;in-english&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>waihtis</author><text>The Nordic countries must adapt away from this pre-globalization mentality or have all of their assets slowly withered away by more flexible economies. The same exact problem applies to Finland where I&amp;#x27;m from.&lt;p&gt;Euro-area economies are stagnant or shrinking whilst US economy is churning onwards like a madman. They will buy all of our assets away over time unless we start seriously competing.&lt;p&gt;Sad, but this is the only choice now that we&amp;#x27;ve chosen to participate in the global economy.</text></comment>