But Polestar has signed collective agreements in Sweden.
Polestar is Chinese.
ludw@lemmy.world 10 months ago
mindlight@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Signing a collective agreement doesn’t in any way change the fact that Polestar is a Chinese company that manufactures their product in China and that China is not pro union.
Zpiritual@lemm.ee 10 months ago
So does Volvo and they haven’t done much against unions. Chinese companies seem to adapt a bit easier to wherever they do business while American companies seem hellbent waging war against themselves like tesla do now.
Guntrigger@feddit.ch 10 months ago
Sort of. The parent company is Chinese, but you don’t see the Swedish unions having massive strikes with Volvo or Polestar workers and they are headquartered there.
mindlight@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Maybe the reason why the Swedish unions aren’t having massive strikes with Polestar workers might be slightly related to the fact that the are no Swedish workers in Polestar?
It is headquartered in Torslanda outside Gothenburg, Sweden. Its vehicles are produced in China, home to Volvo’s corporate parent Geely.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polestar
Guntrigger@feddit.ch 10 months ago
It is true that there’s no Polestar manufacturing in Sweden and Tesla’s dispute seems to centre on those workers in Sweden. However there are still a couple of thousand Polestar employees in Sweden, whereas the Tesla action is against only ~120.
It is not just factory workers that are striking and getting involved. Every field in Sweden is unionised and it is not even just Tesla employees taking action against the company. As the link above states, dockworkers who are not affiliated with Tesla are refusing to unload their cars.
mindlight@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’m pretty sure they are less than “thousands”. Wild guess… Maybe around 788?
Polestar has white collar staff here. Finance, marketing, design etc.