<story><title>Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/swedish_tesla_strike_international/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gottorf</author><text>&amp;gt; the postal service in question is private and works like a private company, though the states of Sweden and Denmark fully owns it.&lt;p&gt;A &amp;quot;private company&amp;quot; that is fully owned by the government is private company in name only; hence my calling it a pseudo-government agency. Especially for a legally-privileged function that is serving postal mail.</text></item><item><author>Hikikomori</author><text>They&amp;#x27;re not allowed to pick and choose themselves. Why and when you can strike and sympathy strike is clearly defined, if you take action outside this framework it would be an illegal strike.&lt;p&gt;And just to add, the postal service in question is private and works like a private company, though the states of Sweden and Denmark fully owns it. Employees are not state employees.</text></item><item><author>gottorf</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s wild! As a (pseudo-) government agency, it seems like the postal service shouldn&amp;#x27;t be legally allowed to pick and choose whose mail to deliver and whose to withhold.</text></item><item><author>eckesicle</author><text>&amp;gt; Postal workers even decided not to deliver mail to the electric automaker, including license plates – an action that Musk called &amp;quot;insane&amp;quot;. The local court has since put a stop to that action.&lt;p&gt;This is no longer true. A higher court overturned that decision and the license plates are again blocked from reaching Tesla.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>actionfromafar</author><text>The government isn&amp;#x27;t meddling in the daily operation of Postnord. They can, via the board, replace the CEO. A blunt tool. The privileged function that is serving mail is clearly defined by law, but the right to strike is also clearly defined in law.</text></comment>
<story><title>Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/swedish_tesla_strike_international/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gottorf</author><text>&amp;gt; the postal service in question is private and works like a private company, though the states of Sweden and Denmark fully owns it.&lt;p&gt;A &amp;quot;private company&amp;quot; that is fully owned by the government is private company in name only; hence my calling it a pseudo-government agency. Especially for a legally-privileged function that is serving postal mail.</text></item><item><author>Hikikomori</author><text>They&amp;#x27;re not allowed to pick and choose themselves. Why and when you can strike and sympathy strike is clearly defined, if you take action outside this framework it would be an illegal strike.&lt;p&gt;And just to add, the postal service in question is private and works like a private company, though the states of Sweden and Denmark fully owns it. Employees are not state employees.</text></item><item><author>gottorf</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s wild! As a (pseudo-) government agency, it seems like the postal service shouldn&amp;#x27;t be legally allowed to pick and choose whose mail to deliver and whose to withhold.</text></item><item><author>eckesicle</author><text>&amp;gt; Postal workers even decided not to deliver mail to the electric automaker, including license plates – an action that Musk called &amp;quot;insane&amp;quot;. The local court has since put a stop to that action.&lt;p&gt;This is no longer true. A higher court overturned that decision and the license plates are again blocked from reaching Tesla.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kryptiskt</author><text>Postnord is a bit of a red herring. If the tender to distribute the registration plates had gone to UPS instead, Tesla would have had exactly the same problem with UPS workers.</text></comment>