Strike at carmaker prompts sympathy action from dockers, painters and postal workers in fight over Swedish labour model

Elon Musk has decried a wave of “insane” strikes focused on Tesla workshops in Sweden, as workers target the US electric car manufacturer in a strike calling for collective bargaining rights.

In what has been portrayed as the largest fight in decades to save Sweden’s union model from global labour practices, the powerful trade union IF Metall has been leading a strike across eight Tesla workplaces in Sweden for five weeks.

It is the first time workers for the US carmaker have gone on strike and on Thursday, Musk, the tech billionaire and chief executive of Tesla, made his feelings clear, writing on X, formerly Twitter: “This is insane.”

  • ApexHunter@lemmy.ml
    518·
    10 months ago

    Wtf are you on about? We give SpaceX nowhere near the funds we give NASA.

    We gave NASA $25 billion this year.

    SpaceX was awarded a $2.9B contract to fund the entire “land starship on the moon” program (a non cost+ contact I might add) spanning multiple years. They launched two sets of crew to the iss this year, at an estimated cost of ~700m. They have had one cargo mission this year at a cost of about $150m.

    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
      223·
      10 months ago

      Let’s give NASA that 2.9b for a new program then. That’s a 10% budget increase.

      Hell give me $2.9b and I’ll find people to put us on the moon. Elon didn’t do shit except take tax money, and give it to smart people, while keeping a cut for himself.