<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>ApolloFortyNine</author><text>Allowing the government owned post office to pick and choose who gets mail just seems like a step too far.&lt;p&gt;But even then the court wasn&amp;#x27;t forcing them to deliver mail, just allowing that mail to be picked up. And now that&amp;#x27;s blocked?&lt;p&gt;I just don&amp;#x27;t understand how one entity can have this much power, in this case they essentially are the government they could demand whatever the hell they wanted. Your choice is to leave the country or agree to the demands of the postal service.&lt;p&gt;People hate tesla and Musk right now so they&amp;#x27;ll by and large support this, but eventually the post office will realize how much power they weild and use it for some other gain.&lt;p&gt;And how is this not similar to the post office choosing not to deliver tax documents, forcing an entity to eventually become delinquent? The government agency responsible for sending license plates only uses the government owned mail provider (makes sense) but that provider can pick and choose who it delivers mail to?</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>nemothekid</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;I just don&amp;#x27;t understand how one entity can have this much power, in this case they essentially are the government they could demand whatever the hell they wanted.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;When you zoom out and look at the actors involved, this isn&amp;#x27;t all that strange. This is a strike - if the citizens of a country don&amp;#x27;t want to do business with a certain entity isn&amp;#x27;t that how the government, ideally, should work? Citizens should be able to demand whatever the hell they wanted; otherwise who does the government work for?</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>ApolloFortyNine</author><text>Allowing the government owned post office to pick and choose who gets mail just seems like a step too far.&lt;p&gt;But even then the court wasn&amp;#x27;t forcing them to deliver mail, just allowing that mail to be picked up. And now that&amp;#x27;s blocked?&lt;p&gt;I just don&amp;#x27;t understand how one entity can have this much power, in this case they essentially are the government they could demand whatever the hell they wanted. Your choice is to leave the country or agree to the demands of the postal service.&lt;p&gt;People hate tesla and Musk right now so they&amp;#x27;ll by and large support this, but eventually the post office will realize how much power they weild and use it for some other gain.&lt;p&gt;And how is this not similar to the post office choosing not to deliver tax documents, forcing an entity to eventually become delinquent? The government agency responsible for sending license plates only uses the government owned mail provider (makes sense) but that provider can pick and choose who it delivers mail to?</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>manuelabeledo</author><text>&amp;gt; Allowing the government owned post office to pick and choose who gets mail just seems like a step too far.&lt;p&gt;The government isn&amp;#x27;t doing this, workers are.&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be more problematic if the government stepped in and forced the hand against their workers, and in favour of a private company like Tesla?</text></comment>