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Tesla may have picked an unwinnable fight with Sweden’s powerful unions — The first ever strikes and a solidarity blockade against the US carmaker could force it to rethink its entire anti-union model::The first ever strikes and a solidarity blockade against the US carmaker could force it to rethink its entire anti-union model, says journalist Martin Gelin

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[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They literally can't sell cars any more in Sweden, on account of the postal service having a sympathy strike and no longer delivering registration plates to them. Using the postal service is the only legal means of obtaining registration plates, and without them it's not permitted to sell a car.

How does that work? Do the postal workers see the return address of (the local equivalent of) the DMV and refuse to deliver if they see a Tesla in the driveway? If not, how do they not block other brands?

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

While I can only speculate on this, if I had to guess I would say that the company selling the cars must sell them with the plates already attached. As such, you can refuse to deliver mail to Tesla addresses.

[–] Natanael 4 points 11 months ago

Technically the buyer could get them road legal after the fact but that would be such a big mess at the volume of sales a company like Tesla would have. Just figuring out delivery when the car can't be driven at that scale sounds insane