Tesla Workers Prepare to Form First Union Challenging Musk
2023.02.14 12:36
Tesla Workers Prepare to Form First Union Challenging Musk
By Kristina Sobol
Budrigannews.com – (NASDAQ) Tesla Tuesday’s announcement by Inc workers in New York that they will launch a campaign to form a union sets the stage for Chief Executive Elon Musk’s latest labor challenge.
The employees announced their intention to join the Workers United Upstate New York union in a letter to Tesla management.
If the union were to be formed, it would be Tesla’s first. Unlike some other major automakers, Tesla has so far managed to avoid unionization at its facilities in the United States.
Musk has previously voiced his opposition to unions, and the National Labor Relations Board of the United States ordered him to delete a tweet from 2018 in which he stated that employees would lose their stock options if they formed a union.
In a press release issued on Tuesday, the workers stated, “We believe unionizing will give us a voice in our workplace that we feel has been ignored to this point.” “The only thing we’re asking for is a seat in the car we helped build,”
Bloomberg News first reported the letter earlier in the day, in which employees urged the world’s most valuable automaker to sign the Fair Election Principles and asked Tesla to respect their right to organize a union.
The principles would prevent Tesla from threatening or retaliating against workers for organizing a union, according to employees, and the right to organize a union is a fundamental civil right.
