All posts tagged: unions

A trivial conflict — Tesla won’t back down

November 27, 2023
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on November 27th, 2023. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. Two realities collide as Tesla sues the Swedish state. The American challenger is used to going its own way — and is unlikely to yield even to Sweden’s powerful unions. A three-metre inflatable rat is standing on a pavement in San Francisco. It looks, to […]

Startups and Unions

February 19, 2019
by Björn Jeffery
The Daily

The political cliché in Silicon Valley is that everyone is a libertarian (and that they want to be seen as a contrarian). The first part is in fact a myth, as disproven by this Stanford study. Actually most people here are some form of Democrat. But a Quartz article stated that this political leaning came with two big exceptions: There were two key areas where the entrepreneurs’ views diverged from Democrats, hewing much more closely to […]