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Elon Musk’s Anti-Union Tweet Found to Violate U.S. Labour Laws
The U.S. National Labour Relations Board decided on Thursday that Tesla repeatedly violated U.S. labour law over the past few years: first when the company fired a union activist in 2017, and then when CEO Elon Musk put out a tweet potentially threatening that employees would lose their stock options if they chose to unionise.
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Auto Workers Are Taking This Into Their Own Hands
America’s blue-collar auto workers can’t work from home amid the global coronavirus pandemic, even if many of them argue that they shouldn’t be working at all. Some of those walked off the job Monday at Michigan’s Warren Truck Assembly, where they make the Ram 1500, perhaps in solidarity with some auto workers in Spain.
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GM Pauses Production Of Contentious Mexico-Made Chevy Blazer
General Motors’ decision to build the new Chevy Blazer in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico was highly controversial. The company has taken fire from union representatives, politicians and consumers alike for starting Blazer production in Mexico after shutting down U.S. plants and laying off workers. Now, the plant that’s been a sticking point for the United Auto…
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Elon Musk To ‘Investigate’ Tesla’s Fremont Plant
Last Thursday, Tesla’s plant in Fremont, California — where all the company’s cars are manufactured — was thrown a curveball. Jose Moran, a worker trying to rally the plant’s 6000+ employees to join the United Auto Workers union (UAW), alleged long hours, low pay and potentially unsafe equipment in a post. Now Tesla CEO Elon…