Nothing is more powerful than a union that can shut down a billion dollar company while also scaring the ever loving shit out of its own government.
This is the reason why unions should be everywhere.
Power to the people!
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Swede here, one of the best thing about unions here is that sympathy strikes are legal.
When Toys 'R Us tried to establish themselves on the Swedish market, they refused to sign a collective bargaining agreement with the national store workers union.
TRU refused to hire union staff, which is legal, but other unions took notice and sympathy strikes started.
TRU could not get advertisements and marketing material printed as the print media union refused the work.
TRU could not get deliveries as the transport union refused to handle their deliveries.
TRU could not even pay their bills as the financial workers union refused to process their payments.
So TRU gave in and signed a CBA, they hired union staff and the stores could open, however the time in Sweden was relatively short lived for TRU.
These tactics are in use currently against Tesla as they have also refused to sign a CBA.
Sadly they have proven to be less effective in this case.
Last I heard the dockworkers union still refuse to unload Tesla cars in Swedish ports, so Tesla unloads them outside of Sweden and use foreign transportation companies to deliver them.
The postal workers union refuse to deliver registration plates to Tesla, so they have started having the new owners take delivery of the plates and then fit them at Tesla.
The most effective part is that the electricians union refuse to work on Tesla chargers, so new ones are not connected and broken chargers are not repaired. At my local super market there are six new chargers that are just sitting there and have been for the last two years due to this.
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Did you read the article? The court pretty much took away their power to strike.
Lol or what? This is what these megacorporations never understand: If I'm already broke, wtf do I give a shit about a fine? We'll just strike harder. And good luck getting scabs.
Every time I see"court orders striking workers to go back to work" I always wonder yo myself why they think that will work.
Of course, I'm even MORE baffled when it works.
You guys had them so terrified that they got courts involved, and you think THEY Hold the power?
Protip: if you hold out long enough, fines will be dropped. If you hold out long enough, their resort is to put you in jail, in which you still won't be working (for that company, anyway)
Also there's a super secret move where you and your coworkers drag your employer out of their home in the middle of the night.
Anyone doubting this should look up what happened with CUPE in Ontario, Canada. The government passed a law that would fine them for striking. They went on strike anyway, and a collective of national unions threatened a general strike. The government repealed the law and wiped out all the fines.
Ronald Reagan fired every single Air Traffic Controller for striking.
It really comes down to political will
And they are still short staffed to this day.
That's not a win for the workers
Yep
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Let's hope Koreans are more like the French than American.
Oops your 2.5B WON state of the art lithograph machine is dismantled, wish we could make chips but nothing we can do right now.
"Oops, you're all going to jail and getting fined a shit load."
So it all depends how they respond to that.
The American way - weekend strike is over let's go home and back to work. We tried.
Or the French way - let's go burn down the government buildings and set police cars on fire.
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Seems like a long shot, they are little satellite empire of us exploitation and capitalist hell
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To look at this another way: the government of South Korea has decided to give people the feeling of a strike without actually letting it affect bottom lines in any meaningful way. That is, they have relegated the strike (a key utility of those fighting for workers' rights) to being a tool used solely to assuage discontent in the short term. Without economic teeth, it cannot be used to enhance the lives of workers, which is ultimately the explicit goal of any strike.
South Korea is of course not alone in reducing or eliminating the rights of its citizens so that corporations continue to profit at their expense.
I don't think these people understand what a strike is. Those in power forget that their power is provisional to what the people are willing to put up with.
President Lee Jae Myung, who is a former rights lawyer and is seen as leading a union-friendly government, said in a social media post on May 18 that management rights should be respected as much as labour rights.
He said that workers should receive fair compensation for their labour, while shareholders who bear risks and losses through investments also deserve a share of corporate profit.
Can't stop laughing at this, Damn.
That... Is insane
We too have tights, y'know, like the right to starve out employees, the right to overwork our employees, the right to hold slaves...
Too soon?
As long as the compensation is unfair no one bats an eye. Don't you dare pay fair compensation, oh no that's not what unions are for. /s
Exactly. It's just corporate speak disguised as progressive politics. Talking about respecting management rights just as much as labor rights is a joke, especially when the playing field is already completely skewed. Peak comedy.
Isn't that kind of the point, though?
Are you new to the state being an arm of the rich?
Unfortunately no.
So how's the government gonna enforce this? Slavery?
Yes, they will just call it in a nicer way. Anti-crisis management or something.
That's a good way to start a general strike in the country.
So maintain chip volume, but switch production from memory chips to corn chips.
I approve of this delicious stratagy.
Then have them go make the chips themselves. Maybe if you weren't such greedy fks we wouldn't have this problem.
samsung owns korea practically.
South Korea is a worse Oligopoly than the US. The big corporations are the government.
Aside from the obviously skewed interests of the court, they do understand what a state is for, and how it usually ends, if that shifts?
That's hilarious.
Adding to pressure on the union, a South Korean court partially granted Samsung’s request for an injunction, ordering the union to ensure any strike did not disrupt production.
The ruling means that a strike must not lead to the degradation of materials used in production, while operations related to safety and avoiding product damage must be maintained at normal levels, a court spokesperson said by telephone.
So… they can stop producing chips?
degradation of materials used in production
If materials can oxidize or otherwise expire, they'd have to use up those materials, which means that whole part of the line keeps running.
And then oops, guys, we couldn't get this delivery canceled in time. The parts are gonna go bad if we don't use them, so... Strike week after next?
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GTFO
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