They’ll do whatever will please the CCP. The Chinese have the german car industry by their balls.
Thinking again, VW abandoning Xinjiang might be beneficial to the CCP as they can start producing cheap parts with good german-ish quality in the abandoned locations to use in their own car brands.
VW is loosing sales in China, that means they have to cut production anyway. The entire Chinese car market is in massive trouble right now, as demand has fallen due to economic problems in China. VW claims to have isolated the China business financially. So they are supposed to be able to move out relatively easily. At least they were warned since years, that they have to move out of China and if they failed well bad management hurts.
This has been company tradition from the very beginning. The only thing they had going for themselves was building affordable quality cars at some time in the past.
It won’t. There’s Germany in there. People here hate on train drivers on the second day of their strike as if they’d been handing out baby sandwiches or something.
They already pay above the normal workshop wage in Sweden so the issue isn’t about that. It’s about the collective agreement. You can always go above that, so the argument that they already pay more doesn’t hold. It’s about worker protections and setting a minimum.
Funny thing is that some tesla representative wanted a meeting with someone from the Swedish government and they flat out refused, saying that this was between the workers and employers unions.
Not a fan of a lot of what the current gov’t is doing, but they deserve some credit for this, although they could also have taken the opportunity to educate Tesla that there’s a free market in Sweden and that the gov’t doesn’t intervene in conflicts between companies and unions.
Funny thing is that some tesla representative wanted a meeting with someone from the Swedish government and they flat out refused, saying that this was between the workers and employers unions.
Shows Tesla doesn’t have any clue how the labour market works in the Nordic countries.
The biggest irony is that this is what libertarians like Musk say they want: for the state to keep out and have the market regulate. Well, the market is regulating and suddenly he cries about daddy government not intervening.
Shows Tesla doesn’t have any clue how the labour market work.
They’ve got their own problems here in the US but lax government oversight and weak state rules for labor organization hinder their ability to hold tesla liable for the nooses and robots-crushing-employees and molds exploding and other horrors.
It’s also hard to hold Tesla accountable in the public square when they “don’t have a public relations department” and shit like Musk’s poop-emoji replies to the press.
I find it really funny how people think economic growth is just this magical thing that can happen. Not just Russia but everywhere.
Either citizens get better at making food/water/housing/heating/medicine/etc or they don’t. There’s no way to print money, or shift funds, or “create jobs” that somehow avoids those things AND helps the economy. Even jobs like Netflix, or the military don’t contribute because they don’t (at least not usually) help farmers make food or help build housing, etc.
If, other things staying equal, a sizable amount of the population is, let’s say, locked inside their own home, or maybe at war destroying resources instead of producing them, then there is NO WAY to escape the economic loss.
However, there are ✨lots of ways to try and lie about it with bad metrics and poorly done statistics.✨
The sanctions regime of the past several decades is collapsing. There are too many markets outside of the empire’s control to effectively enforce all sanctions and vassals within the empire are too uppity to force them to comply anymore.
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