Living around one of Tesla's Gigafactories, I have lots of friends who have worked/do work there.<p>In the case of our gigafactory, there's horror stories not just inside (machines injuring people), but everyone I talk to specifically talks about the dangers of the commute. It's not super far from town, but the road there is almost entirely used for commuting to and from Tesla, and it's one of those highways where the average speed of traffic is minimum 30mph above the speed limit. Crashes can be seen weekly (daily in the winter) and it affects people. It's a factory, so people are driving there at like 5am and racing there to not be late (they're super strict). Tesla has tried to solve it by providing buses to the factory, but then you'd need to wake up at like 3:30-4am and get home later too.
If only Elon believed in what he says: "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" and dared them to a vote given his past comments [1].<p>1. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/3/22959592/elon-musk-tesla-union-challenges-uaw-california-factory-vote" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/3/22959592/elon-musk-tesla-u...</a>
Over past year I've watched my partner switch from wanting a Tesla to wanting a Polestar 2. The decision is based entirely on Tesla's brand image and it's things like this and Elon posting on twitter that just keep doing it damage. It's difficult to boycott Amazon but it is not difficult to boycott Tesla, do they not understand their customer base cares about this sort of thing? Or is it not doing actual damage to the brand?
> Tesla Workers United told News 4 on Thursday that over 30 workers were fired from Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo on Wednesday, after workers attempted to organize earlier this week.<p>> “I returned to work (from COVID and a bereavement leave), was told I was exceeding expectations and then Wednesday came along,” said organizing committee member Arian Berek in a release. “I strongly feel this is in retaliation to the committee announcement and it’s shameful.”<p>> Thursday, News 4 reached out again and received a bounce-back email, which said Tesla’s press email inbox is full and cannot currently accept messages.
This guy and his companies keep showing us what a terrible person he is yet people keep buying their cars and the government keeps subsidizing musks companies...
Isn't this just blatantly illegal? Not an American, but I was under the impression that it was federally illegal to fire employees for organizing.
Wire tap laws in a workplace setting are absolutely bullshit and intended to shield managers and companies from liability.<p>Should be exempt if you are recording racial/sexual harassment or illegal labor practice
Seems a stretch to just assume it was union busting without more evidence.<p>200+ people doing the exact same job in another facility in CA, that was not trying to unionize, were also let go 6 months ago.<p>Seems clear that Tesla didn't need as many of these people doing this particular job function anymore.<p><a href="https://archive.is/i6BCD" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/i6BCD</a>
It turns out that they weren't as important of employees after all. Tesla was underpaying them anyway so this is ultimately a good thing for people who were working below market rate because they liked the company.
Not being able to unionize is an aberration of capitalism. In my country unions do exist and albeit being soemwhat outdated now on some fronts, they are the main reason behind huge advancements in worker wellbeing.
As I'm not an expert on American Employment and Labour Union laws, does anyone with more experience know: is this not very likely to cause significant problems for Tesla with the NLRB?
I was going to post yesterday, jokingly, that this was the likely outcome.<p>And here we are.<p>Elon Musk is a small, thin skinned pathetic child.<p>I won't touch a Tesla or anything else associated with that fool.
These are data labellers... A union would probably not have helped them.<p>Imagine they all join a union... And they are all very unhappy and vote to go on strike... And they strike for many months...<p>Tesla will just send their data labelling workload to Mechanical Turk and it'll be done by people in India...<p>A union only has power if the company is hurt by a strike. And in this case, there is nothing beyond minor inconvenience.
Unions already tried to kill the auto industry once make sense they would try again in the EV era<p><a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015" rel="nofollow">https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015</a>