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.”

  • @[email protected]
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    fedilink
    31 year ago

    Yeah the problem with that kind of humour is that eventually you’ll attract the people who think the same thing unironnically.

    • cannache
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      11 year ago

      But preferably only in person face to face and as a joke. Not as behind your back, messing with you kind of thing