I very much support workers collecting in solidarity to support each other.
I'm not sure that I like the idea of official agents of a state office, or de facto state office, being authorized to independently choose how to execute their duties.
Would it also be permitted for a group of socially conservative postal workers to refuse to deliver wedding licenses or legal documents to same sex partnerships? To determine which mail had documents for refugees and refuse to deliver those?
Dock workers not offloading boats is one thing, but disrupting the mail is a real challenge for me to get right in my head.
If the postal service would be that important in the eyes of the Danish and Swedish governments, then they wouldn't have re-structured their postal services as a state owned company, but kept it a state agency.
But they didn't. In turn the postal workers are no longer state officials, which comes with a loss of job security, but instead they gained the right to strike.
You can petition the government to undo this semi-privatization of course.
Strikes are regulated in Denmark and Sweden, and usually need to be organized by a proper union, and can be deemed unjustified by a court - like it happened in this case, until that decision was overturned again. This makes your fears of "socially conservative" "unions" unlikely. :)
My question is if there comes along a candidate for Swedish prime minister, who a union doesn't like, can members of the campaign organization begin a strike against that candidate? And can sympathy strikers then choose to shut down that candidate's whole campaign operation?
Conservatives would perhaps refuse to engage in strikes against Swedish companies, but an American company they'd want to drive them out. Conservatives in the Nordics are just nationalists.
I'm not sure that I like the idea of official agents of a state office, or de facto state office, being authorized to independently choose how to execute their duties.
Would it also be permitted for a group of socially conservative postal workers to refuse to deliver wedding licenses or legal documents to same sex partnerships? To determine which mail had documents for refugees and refuse to deliver those?
Dock workers not offloading boats is one thing, but disrupting the mail is a real challenge for me to get right in my head.