Elon Musk calls strikes ‘insane’ as Swedish workers take on Tesla - eviltoast

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.”

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    1 year ago

    dude he HAS a massive PR team to keep his image up, hell that PR Team is the only reason why people had this image of him in the first place

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      1 year ago

      He has literally fired most (not sure if all?) of Tesla’s PR team in the past as well as Twitter’s. Guy doesn’t believe PR is worthwhile.

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        1 year ago

        ya, he has a personal PR team, why keep the others around? you want proof of his PR team, tho? take a look at the massive wave of “Musk is irl Iron Man articles” and how they always include a specific set of phrases and accomplishments to list.