b9AcE #NoEdits on Nostr: Oh, sigh. "It's not a strike, but an unsanctioned industrial action which is ehh, is ...

Oh, sigh.
"It's not a strike, but an unsanctioned industrial action which is ehh, is attempted extortion with the commuters of Stockholm as hostages",
says the Stockholm County Councilor for Traffic, which goes under the "Greens" party label, using rhetoric far right-wing uses against all strikes.
Withholding one's product, in this case one's sale of worked hours, is no more "extortion" than it is "extortion" when a farmer demands conditions they consider acceptable for sale of their produced productst.

Of course it's a fucking strike, even though "their" trade union (Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees) has been tamed by "Swedish Employers Association" due to being part of the "Swedish Trade Union Confederation" conglomerate, which is a part of (once leftish) "Social Democrat" party, so sacrificed the workers for ruling power already with the Saltsjöbad Agreement of 1938.

If the workers have a need to strike and "their" union doesn't let them, that union has just declared itself to have failed, to then be unrepresentative of those workers and thus lost its mandate to exist at that place of work.
The unions exist to represent the workers' interests.
The workers don't exist to represent the interests of the political party that some union belongs to.