Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the Swedish state via Sweden’s Transport Agency after striking postal workers in the Scandinavian country stopped delivering license plates for new vehicles manufactured by the Texas-based automaker
  • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    32·
    11 months ago

    The government, not the union, signed a contract that prevents the license plates from being handled in any other way. That is the problem, not the striking workers.

    I get what you’re saying but also the government is free to sign an exclusive contract with a company, right? Like if DHL had agreed to distribute the plates for free, but only if they had the exclusive rights to it, I don’t see a problem with it.

    The government is obligated to get those license plates out and failed in that obligation.

    Are they? The government has done what they should, as in make sure there are plates. Having the government be responsible for the plates reaching the consumer would be weird IMHO.

    But I’m not a lawyer and I’m sure this will be interesting to follow.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      Well, that’s what’s going to be challenged.

      The judges already deemed it worthy enough to let the lawsuit continue and allow Tesla to pick the plates up in person (and imposed fines if they are hindered) , so they don’t think its meritless.

      I appreciate that you can at least see the difference here even if you still don’t think there’s a problem.

      As you say, this will be very interesting to follow