The conflict between Swedish unions and Tesla heated up on Friday as a supplier of critical components joined in a sympathy action to get the electric car maker to sign a collective bargaining agreement for its Swedish workers.
Finally, a salient answer. I can work with that. It seems that nobody would accept an offer of employment at a lower wage than they could get elsewhere, so, I’m dubious on that claim by the union.
I see the points about increases. There are no ‘laws’ about increases being mandatory/ written in stone here in the U.S. either. From the context of my experience at companies I’ve worked for, it depends on company performance. In profitable years the increase is more than less profitable years. That does leave the door open for a company to not be honest but then an employee has the option/freedom to leave that company for a better one. In general, those companies that are better in this regard (pay, retirement/pension benefits, etc) are more sought after and have higher employee retention.
I’ve left companies I wasn’t happy with after voluntarily accepting the offer of employment. I think that’s a fundamental difference in perspectives on this issue: some people say there is freedom to move to where you’re treated best and you have the option of accepting terms of employment or not when they are offered versus the others who say any company they work for must provide a certain set of benefits even if the employee initially accepted the terms offered which did not include those…
Finally, a salient answer. I can work with that. It seems that nobody would accept an offer of employment at a lower wage than they could get elsewhere, so, I’m dubious on that claim by the union.
I see the points about increases. There are no ‘laws’ about increases being mandatory/ written in stone here in the U.S. either. From the context of my experience at companies I’ve worked for, it depends on company performance. In profitable years the increase is more than less profitable years. That does leave the door open for a company to not be honest but then an employee has the option/freedom to leave that company for a better one. In general, those companies that are better in this regard (pay, retirement/pension benefits, etc) are more sought after and have higher employee retention.
I’ve left companies I wasn’t happy with after voluntarily accepting the offer of employment. I think that’s a fundamental difference in perspectives on this issue: some people say there is freedom to move to where you’re treated best and you have the option of accepting terms of employment or not when they are offered versus the others who say any company they work for must provide a certain set of benefits even if the employee initially accepted the terms offered which did not include those…
Why did the mechanics take the job, then?