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According to union information, the electric car manufacturer Tesla has laid off more than 30 employees at a US plant because they wanted to form an employee representative body. In a complaint to the NLRB, the union Workers United Upstate New York said the employees who had been dismissed from the Autopilot division of the Buffalo (New York) plant wanted to organize themselves.
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Tesla has so far been able to prevent unionization
The workers who campaigned to form a union also received an email saying they were forbidden from recording meetings in the workplace without the consent of all participants. The union said it was illegal.
Tesla boss Elon Musk has made no secret of his aversion to unions in the past. In 2018, he threatened on Twitter that Tesla employees would lose their stock options if they unionized. Unlike other major automakers, Tesla has so far managed to avoid unionization at its US plants.
Accessed on 02/16/2023 at 06:34
