But regardless of who is telling the truth about Tuesday’s events, the bigger picture is hard to miss. Tesla management has spent months threatening workers with disinvestment if they vote the “wrong way”, threw an anti-union concert, pushed through a pay raise specifically designed to sideline the works council, and now filed a criminal complaint against a union representative three weeks before the election. That’s not the behavior of a company confident it has the workforce on its side.

The real question isn’t whether someone hit record on a laptop. It’s whether Giga Berlin has a viable future at all. With European sales in freefall, the brand’s reputation in Germany at historic lows, and 1,700 jobs already quietly eliminated, the factory looks increasingly redundant. If IG Metall wins the March election, Tesla has already pre-loaded the excuse to scale back. If it loses, the underlying demand problem remains.

Unfortunately it is somewhat spoiled by this nonsensical comment inserted at the end:

Either way, the roughly 10,700 workers still at the plant are caught in the middle of a fight that has very little to do with their interests

This is of course the opposite of reality. This fight has everything to do with the workers' interests. Obviously Tesla is not fighting the union for the benefit of the workers, it's doing it to suppress the power of the workers. This is all about the interests of the workers, and about workers fighting to be able to collectively enforce their interests against the will of the company that wants to prevent them from doing so.

1d ago

Why Southern China Has So MANY Dialects (& the North So Few)

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cfgaussian @lemmygrad.ml 1d ago

I prefer to not get hung up on the semantics of what exactly you call them. I just thought the video was interesting.

1d ago

General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 7

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cfgaussian @lemmygrad.ml 1d ago

Some of the "China glazers" these days are radlibs. Liking China is becoming more and more mainstream. Ultimately that is a good thing though, because it shows that China's achievements are becoming impossible to avoid or deny. So all sorts of libs are jumping on the bandwagon now. That's fine. Once again "tankies" were right way before everyone else. We were on China's side long before it became popular.

1d ago

Hi ex-liberal and ex-fascist, How did you overcome the Red Scare and learn about the truth on the USSR and AES countries?

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cfgaussian @lemmygrad.ml 1d ago

Learning about WWII and the Great Patriotic War. Reading history and communist literature. And just seeing what China is doing and comparing it to what is happening in the West.

1d ago

Russia's perpetually collapsing economy (according to Western media)

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cfgaussian @lemmygrad.ml 1d ago

From the same publications that brought you year after year of news article headlines predicting:

"Russia is about to run out of missiles",

"China's economy is slowing down/about to have a hard landing",

And of course Gordon Chang's world-famous series

"China/the CCP is about to collapse"

(2001-present day).