• Hyperreality
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    1 year ago

    A democratically elected government signed an exclusive contract with a private company. This worked just fine for years.

    But now a foreign company wants the democratically elected government to make an exception for them, so they can circumvent labour unions and undermine the labour rights enacted by a democratically elected parliament.

    Ignoring the legal merits of this particular case, it’s bad PR and very bad politics.

    Don’t be too surprised if, over the coming months and years, Tesla and Musk’s troubles with authorities and unions across the EU keep mounting up and that suddenly no one cares to give them the benefit of the doubt or interpret the rules anything but strictly.