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Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Tim Mansell.

Today we're in Sweden, where this week they're marking the second anniversary of the longest strike in recent history.

A handful of mechanics taking on the

electric car company, Tesla.

Most of us that started early in Tesla, we were also like big Tesla fans, we believed in

the idea and the vision, you know, the whole thing. So it was not only a job, you know.

But there was the issue of trade union recognition.

Most workers in Sweden are union members.

But Tesla has refused to recognize the union's right to organize in its service centers.

I just don't like anything which creates kind of a lords and peasants sort of thing.

And I think the unions naturally try to create negativity in a company and create a sort of lords and peasants sort of thing. And I think the unions naturally try to create negativity in a company

and create a sort of lords and peasants situation. That's all coming up on today's program.

Yeah, this is a recording just so you know. Okay. Yeah? Okay. I thought it would be good to record while

we drive. This is Malma in southern Sweden. The man picking me up is Janice Kuzma, a man with a striking

dark beard and a red woolly hat. And tell me what you're driving. What kind of car is this?

This is a Tesla. What kind of Tesla? Tesla Model Y performance, 2022.

Malma is the third biggest city in Sweden, a port city just over the water from Denmark.

Janis is taking me out to the suburbs to a Tesla service center.

So it's now just after 7.30 in the morning. What time does the service center

open? Around eight. Janis is a Tesla mechanic, but he's not here to work. Instead, he's going to

spend the day outside in a high vis vest that tells anyone who wants to know that he's on strike.

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