It was a setback for Tesla in the Solna district court.
Postnord does not need to distribute the number plates to the company while waiting for the case to be decided.
They must be allowed to speak first and have three days.
- We will now use the time to analyze and make an assessment of the mood that the district court has now shared, says Postnord’s press manager Anders Porelius.
Postnord does not need to distribute the number plates to the company while waiting for the case to be decided.
They must be allowed to speak first and have three days.
- We will now use the time to analyze and make an assessment of the mood that the district court now has On Monday, it was jacked up a notch, when the news came that Tesla is suing the Swedish state through the Swedish Transport Agency at the Norrköping district court and Postnord at the Solna district court.
On November 16, Tesla ordered 28 registration plates for new cars from the Swedish Transport Agency - which are now stuck with Postnord, according to the lawsuit that was submitted to the Solna district court on Monday.
On Tuesday, a decision was made in the Solna district court regarding Tesla’s request for a so-called interim decision - i.e. the requirement that Postnord distribute the registration plates while the legal process is ongoing.
It was rejected. Postnord gets to comment first and has three days.
“It has not emerged that it would be the question of such harmful effects and such a lack of time that justifies an immediate decision,” writes the Solna district court in the decision.
- They want to get our views on this matter. We will look into that, says Anders Porelius, Postnord’s press manager.
The blockade behind the mood The background is the trade unions Seko’s and ST’s blockade of Postnord, which means that employees do not handle Tesla’s mail. This, in turn, has led to Tesla not getting the number plates for new cars distributed.
According to the Swedish Transport Agency, the framework agreement for postal package distribution that all government agencies follow prohibits them from using a supplier other than Postnord. Tesla is also not allowed to pick up the signs themselves, according to the agreement with the manufacturer.
Tesla’s letters and packages have thus been left lying around.
In connection with the lawsuit, the electric car giant also requested a court order to collect the license plates from the manufacturer while the legal process is ongoing - and the Norrköping District Court followed Tesla’s line.
The idea is that Tesla owners should be able to pick up the signs directly from the manufacturer, but there are no procedures for how this should be done in practical terms, writes TT.
- Registration plates are not something we want to end up in the wrong hands. We make sure that signs go where they are supposed to, says Anna Berggrund, department director for vehicle information at the Swedish Transport Agency, to the news agency.
Sweden doesn’t have federally mandated worker protections like some other countries do. Instead, employers are expected to sign worker agreements with their employees. Tesla has refused to do this for five years, so Tesla employees went on strike. Their union asked other unions to back them up, and some (like Postnord) have, even though they were never directly involved in the initial conflict. In other signs of solidarity, dock workers at some Swedish ports are also refusing to unload Teslas from ships, electricians are refusing to repair charging stations, cleaning companies won’t clean Tesla showrooms, etc.
Many Swedish unions see Tesla’s stubbornness as a threat to the rights of Swedish workers, and look at this as an attempt to weaken and undermine them.
Full disclosure: I am far from neutral. I am 100% on the side of the unions.
Fortnite: the worker agreement (“kollektivavtal”) just defined the minimums. If an employer want to give the employees 30 weeks of vacation and 1000000SEK there’s nothing stopping the employer.
So when Elon refuses to sign an agreement about fair pay and treatment it’s all about have to option to not pay a fair wage…
I think it’s dockworkers in all Swedish ports actually, not just some.
Last I read, it was just the major ports, but it was planned to spread to all of them. I wasn’t sure it had happened yet. Thanks!