‘We can’t let Tesla get away with this’: why Swedish unions are fighting Elon Musk

Billionaire is against the labour movement, and workers believe their country's traditions are under threat

I disagree with the idea of unions," Elon Musk said during a rambling onstage interview this week. I just don't like anything which creates a lords and peasants kind of thing."

His appearance at the New York Times event may be best remembered for Musk's diatribe against X's missing advertisers; but the anti-union outburst shed light on a clash taking place thousands of miles away in Sweden.