Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk | Hamilton Nolan
www.theguardian.com
The carmaker is now US labor’s most important target. If Musk doesn’t like that, he’s welcome to settle it with an auto worker by cage match
  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
    742·
    2 years ago

    I predict Elon pulling an illegal stunt & getting busted in reaction to this.

    • DarkGamer@kbin.social
      772·
      2 years ago

      I predict him pulling an illegal stunt and getting off scot-free because he’s wealthy and has aligned himself with the christofascist party that doesn’t support the rule being used against its own.

        • krayj@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          26·
          2 years ago

          That’s the part of the point of the comment you are replying to. The fines are neither a deterrent nor an inconvenience to those wealthy enough to cover the cost. They use their money, power, and influence to continue to violate law without any other consequences other than pulling out their checkbook. The fines are meaningless to people that wealthy.

          • Jaysyn@kbin.social
            11·
            2 years ago

            Ok, so what you want is for union busting to be a criminal offense instead of a civil one.

            I can get behind that.

            • kbotc@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              2 years ago

              I mean, he could spend some time in jail for contempt of court if he does something awful…

    • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      2 years ago

      Oh yeah. He drinks his own Kool-aid and sees himself as some unstoppable titan, when the reality is he’s just an egotistical fancy lad.

    • SinningStromgald@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I predict he fires everyone and hires people on H1B visas using a contractor.

      Edit: Even if the NLRB forces him to recognize the union he can just pull a Starbucks and refuse to negotiate. Meanwhile he can drag out every wrongful termination suite and still hire people on H1B visas and save who knows how much doing so.

    • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Didn’t he already try that at twitter and had to backpedal? They weren’t even trying to unionize in that case.

  • silverbax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    I believe this may be one of the few times other car manufacturers would lobby the government in favor of unions, since they see Tesla as having an unfair advantage that hurts their bottom line.

    • Jonna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      My experience says that they’d point at non union competition as an excuse to say no to union demands in negotiations.

  • 5BC2E7@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    2 years ago

    Are they forming a technology union? Otherwise I think this should be in news.