Tesla must respect collective bargaining rights, Norway's sovereign wealth fund says
The electric vehicle producer faces a backlash in the Nordic region from unions and some pension funds over its refusal to accept a demand from Swedish mechanics for collective bargaining rights covering wages and other conditions.
Norges Bank Investment Management, which operates the Norwegian fund, is Tesla's 7th biggest shareholder with a 0.88% stake worth some $6.8 billion according to LSEG data.
"We expect companies in which we invest to respect fundamental human rights, including labour rights," NBIM said in a statement to Reuters when asked about Tesla's conflict with its Swedish workers.
"In 2022 we supported a shareholder proposal at Tesla that asked the company to introduce a policy to respect the right to organise," it added.
The 2022 proposal, which NBIM said was supported by 32% of those who voted, called on Tesla to adopt a policy of respecting labour rights such as freedom of association and collective bargaining. The company's board recommended a 'no' vote.
That fund is no joke. They quite literally own more of the world wide financials than many countries. https://www.nbim.no/
On a side note, the union in Finland also just joined the strike.
Come along, Germany, join the Nordic solidarity.
Unfortunately solidarity strikes are not legal in Germany. What we need are the French unions to join in. Have you seen the video of French firefighters going hand to hand with riot police? The French know how to party, we could use their noice in this.
That's at least partially because those particular firefighters are actually part of the French Army.
Too bad O&G-rich places like Texas and Alberta didn't pay attention on how to manage their fossil fuel profits properly.
Are you sure about that? They did the text book play of taking the profits while leaving the taxpayers to deal with the environmental clean up and the losses. /s
Yup.
sigh
Oh no they did it perfectly. The rich people walked away with all the money and everyone else gets to beg for scraps from them.
Read this to the tune of Adventure Time opening. chefs kiss
Womp womp lol get fucked musk. You don't have the power to stand up to organized, militant labor.
I expect some childish short circuit illegal move from him any time.
Good. Get fucked Elon.
What a load of BS, Tesla never respected unions, and will only accept them if they are forced. But they will still fight unions tooth and nail in every country unions aren't protected by law, and even countries where they are. The dimwits already knew that when they bought in, now they just pretend to have standards they obviously don't uphold in their investments, unless it gets attention. Same goes for the danish pension funds.
Musk only owns something like 12% of Tesla. It is time for the other stockholders to elect a board that will hire a new CEO.