From announcement of intent to organize to illegal firings and an NLRB complaint in 24 hours is anyone surprised that it is Tesla that did this?
This is not going to end until Elon Musk is frog marched out of his offices in handcuffs:
Tesla has reportedly fired employees at its Buffalo, NY, gigafactory just a day after workers announced plans to unionize.
In a complaint filed with America's National Labor Relations Board and viewed by The Register, representatives from the Rochester regional Workers United joint board named 18 employees they say were terminated from the Autopilot department at the gigafactory "in retaliation for union activity and to discourage union activity."
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The Buffalo workers were reportedly pushed to unionize after Tesla shut down an internal channel that employees used to complain about their jobs.
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The union said in its statement that remaining Tesla employees received an email at 1900 on the day of the firings, informing them of a new policy prohibiting the recording of workplace meetings without all participants' consent.
"This policy violates federal labor law and also flouts New York's one-party consent law to record conversations," Tesla Workers United said.
The union asked in its complaint for injunctive relief under section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act, which would restore the employee's status before the labor violation occurred while allowing the NLRB time to investigate.
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The NLRB has already found Tesla guilty once before of suppressing union activity, and the company has also been accused of improperly terminating employees. Suffice it to say, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that Tesla's guilty of these allegations as well.
Violations of labor laws, securities fraud, an alleged sexual assault (and subsequent offer of a pony), etc.
Why the hell is this guy not wearing an ankle monitor awaiting trial?
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