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Sometimes the games are not what you think

 About three weeks ago, in Sweden, IG Metal, the largest trade Union in the country persuaded dock workers, and postal employees to not provide services to Tesla, to boycott Tesla because it was opposed to certifying any union for its twenty or so mechanics that work in Sweden.

It looks like Tesla was the big bad guy here, and IG Metal added that eventually all of Tesla's workers need to be unionized otherwise no Tesla in Sweden (at least).  

What a massive miscalculation by IG Metal. What we know so far:

(1) Tesla in Sweden has offered its Swedish employees the opportunity to unionize, but apparently, in Sweden, the offer cannot come from the employer it has to come from the employees.

(2) The mechanics of Tesla indicated in an open letter to the major financial newspaper in Sweden that they never asked to join a union, that IG Metal never offered for them to join, and frankly they don't want anything to do with the Union.

(3) Tesla is considered in many parts of the world as the "BEST EMPLOYER"  When in 2022 they started recruiting for their new Texas plant, they had 20,000 job openings.  They received 3.6 million applications.

All these items have come out in the past few days, and now IG Metal looks like a bunch of cartel guys who are after a piece of the action.  It's important to understand that Tesla cannot invite a union, it has to come from the workers -- who have indicated that they are not interested.

This just illustrates the problem with partial information.

How many supporters of Palestine know that 100% of the higher-ups in Hamas live with their families in Dubai?  That they live in luxury and are more than happy to see the ordinary Palestinians be subjected to attacks  Who broke the cease-fire on Saturday?  It was Hamas, they don't care that the Palestinians are suffering they just want their war with Israel to ensure that the Abraham Accord between Israel and Saudi Arabia is never signed.

On another note:

I was laughing my head off this morning when I saw the news that a woman made a police complaint of rape after she was having a Lesbian affair with the head of Mothers for Liberty, who is also the wife of the head of Florida GOP.  The husband decided to join the little romp in a three-way, and the woman was not happy at all and lodged her complaint.   For those who don't know the GOP is anti-LGBTQ, anti-gay is probably not condoning three-way sex, and the Mothers for Liberty is a powerful (probably pro-nazi) group of women trying to get LGBTQ literature out of schools (they even got a book banned because the author's surname was "Gay"). The pro-nazi may be a stretch after all they've only been caught two or three times citing Mein Kempf in their literature.  Not suspicious at all! Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. 


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