If Metall is fighting a battle for us all ( การต่อสู้ของสหภาพแรงงานคือการต่อสู้ของพวกเราทุกคน )

 If Metall is fighting a battle for us all

Åsa Linderborg

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Published 09.57

Collective agreements are about safe employment conditions. If it was something "funny", Musk would sign so he got rid of the Swedish shit.

Collective agreements are about safe employment conditions. If it was something "funny", Musk would sign so he got rid of the Swedish shit.

Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

What do Carl XVI Gustaf, lieutenant colonel Paasikivi and Elon Musk have in common?

They only talk to journalists when they want to.

"This is not a day for questions," said the king when he visited Karlskrona the other day.

It had been a long time since the media cared about His Majesty's municipal visits, but now he suddenly had a pack of journalists following him. The embarrassing story with Patrick Sommerlath got the reporter's attention - quite unnecessarily, because the king only wanted to talk about the gang crime and not the crime that a family member might have committed.

Carl Gustaf is head of state, but he doesn't have to respect the media for that. On Wednesday, the court sent out a press release that the royal couple is taking the situation seriously, but everything is still unanswered. The court claims that they certainly tried to help the police - how then? Does Patrick Sommerlath pay any rent to live at tax-funded Drottningholm?

Lieutenant Colonel Paasikivi has terminated his association with DN after a column signed by Johan Croneman. He happened to be asking for more experts about the war in Ukraine. For almost two years, Paasikivi has been saying that Ukraine will soon take back everything that Putin has taken, but unfortunately that is not true. Is there anyone else who can give an explanation for what is happening?

It wasn't exactly a kick in the wallet, more of a silent prayer that we get the information we deserve. Like me, Croneman is tired of having to go to American newspapers to find out a little more. In the US, the social elite demands that the media give them adequate information, they do not want to hear fairy tales or wishful dreams.

That a lieutenant colonel, who has received our trust to manage Sweden's defense, is so quick-witted that he breaks with DN, says something about how uncritically the media has treated him in the past.

Elon Musk finally, the world's richest man. He does not want to talk about the Swedish metal workers' demands for a collective agreement.

For years now, the commentariat has lamented Musk's culture war, but when that gaping mouth for once deals with something else - class war - then the same commentariat doesn't understand a thing.

Why would Musk care about something as "funny" as a collective agreement in a Nordic "nook"? asks Sanna Torén Björling at DN. Anna Gullberg at Expressen is just as stupid, she thinks the strike is about higher wages.

Collective agreements are about safe employment conditions. If what Musk calls "madness" on X was something "funny", he would sign so he got rid of the Swedish class struggle.

All the world's trade union movements are watching Sweden right now. If Metall is fighting a battle for us all.

If Anna Gullberg thinks that Sweden is embarrassing itself with this strike, she should consider what the collective agreement, which she herself enjoys, means for herself.

Anyone who wants to know more can contact their local trade representative. They always answer questions.