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August 16, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Tesla Ends Sweden's Longest Strike, 1,021 Days, By Paying Off Every Remaining Union Member
Tesla just won a fight it never agreed to have on the other side's terms.
Sweden's IF Metall union announced on August 13 that it will end its strike against Tesla, effective 00:01 on Wednesday, August 19. The reason is arithmetic, not negotiation. Tesla offered severance packages to the roughly 80 remaining striking union members, and enough took the deal that IF Metall has no one left on the picket line, according to the union's own statement.
No collective bargaining agreement was signed. That was the entire point of the strike.
How it started
The walkout began October 27, 2023, when roughly 120 to 130 Tesla mechanics across seven Swedish workshops demanded Tesla sign a kollektivavtal, the collective agreement that covers most Swedish workplaces, according to Electrek and Business Insider. Sweden has no statutory minimum wage. Pay, hours, and pensions in most industries come from these union-employer agreements instead of law, a system TheNextWeb noted covers roughly 90% of Swedish workers.
Tesla refused.
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