So much for free competition/ marketplace…

That’s a denial of the obivious fact that If tesla leaves those worker will be without a job… At Tesla. If Tesla were to shut down it’s business in Sweden, what would happen to the jobs of those people who currently work there (all of them, and not just the mechanics)?

Your seem to be inferring the workers could find jobs elsewhere which is not… insightful. Who would get them those jobs? The union? The union didn’t get them the jobs they have now so…

Is it easy to be cavalier with someone else’s job? It comes down to the scenario’s Fact (they’d have no job at Tesla) Versus the Speculation (They could find another job… somewhere).

Here’s how much the Swedish union “cares” about workers: The head of the Swedish Trade Union would rather see those workers without jobs than have Tesla not be in a union. DISGUSTING.

• Source Interview

"In an interview, Susanna Gideonsson, who heads the Swedish trade union federation fighting Tesla, sounded remarkably confident. “This will end with the employees winning a collective bargaining agreement, one way or another,” she said. And if they don’t? “Then Tesla can leave the country.” "

And I quote:

“You changed the whole story, Mary, wherever wherever you are. There you are. You did, Mary. You electrified the entire automobile industry. I’m serious. You led — and it matters — in drastically improving the climate by reducing hundreds of millions of barrels of oil that will not be used when we’re all electric.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/17l46ho/tesla_employees_in_sweden_refuse_to_join_strike/

This is a smart move by Tesla. Considering it will take years to get through producing just the pre-orders, this avoids the malcontent generated amongst the people by seeing CT’s flipped foe $200k by the few lucky who get them first. It keeps pricing from ever being an issue why Tesla ramps production.

Remember when people were flipping model 3’s during the Covid lockdown? Some were buying them up and and it was faster to buy from them than Tesla could deliver new production to the masses. That was ‘No Bueno’ for Tesla.