Amazon’s business model meets Sweden’s labor unions
What a weird article. Loads of international companies operate in countries with wildly different laws, standards of living, disposable income, etc.<p>Why compare Sweden with a Polish warehouse workers and not investigate how e.g. Amazon.fr operates? That country at least goes on strike significantly more often (probably more so than the rest of the EU combined). Meaning, one year I noticed them on strike every other week to protest some intended government plan, even though the company had nothing to do with that, plus they only went on strike during the night.<p>&gt; Initially, Swedish and Nordic clients will be mainly served from German warehouses — known as fulfillment centers in Amazon-speak — with trucks driving up to Sweden through Denmark, and a fulfillment center operated by local partner Kuehne + Nagel in the Swedish town of Eskilstuna, near Stockholm.<p>So partly they question if they&#x27;ll operate a warehouse, but at the same time, there&#x27;s going to be a warehouses. Only difference is that someone else does the logistics for them.<p>What usually happens with different standards of living is that the companies raise their prices a bit. Not sure why the article does not go into that.<p>EU is planning some changes in the trucking cabotage laws, see e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.europarl.europa.eu&#x2F;news&#x2F;en&#x2F;headlines&#x2F;society&#x2F;20200630STO82385&#x2F;better-working-conditions-for-truck-drivers-across-the-eu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.europarl.europa.eu&#x2F;news&#x2F;en&#x2F;headlines&#x2F;society&#x2F;202...</a>. This might (according to articles) make it more difficult to only use truckers from certain countries (e.g. whomever has the lowest standard of living &#x2F; wage). Might also benefit the environment by ensuring companies might reduce the amount of trucking.