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Meidner’s core thesis is more relevant than ever: “All experience shows that influence and control is not enough. Ownership plays a decisive role.”

“In a time of crisis, when crimes against humanity are being committed, it is absolutely necessary for workers to go on strike. This is a moral obligation on all of us. It is also our system that is complicit in what Israel is doing.”

For more than a year now, Tesla service workers in Sweden have been on strike, demanding inclusion in a collective agreement.

For labor unions across the Nordics — a region encompassing Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland — the tussle with Tesla and Elon Musk, a vocal critic of unions, is existential.