Posted on 02/10/2017 6:12:16 AM PST by artichokegrower
Disgruntled Tesla employees have reached out to the United Automobile Workers, claiming they work long hours for low pay under unsafe conditions while the electric vehicle company sets aggressive production deadlines.
California lawmakers have also questioned Tesla for making its employees sign broad confidentiality agreements, which they say chill worker communications.
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If you don’t like the job or the conditions, go find another job, then quit.
Unions don’t wield political power like before. I think the left is looking for greener pastures. And many of the union people have become Trump supporters because you can’t even have a union if there is no factory!
The employees complaining are probably being organized by union agitators. This is how they try to shoehorn into a company. Its simply community organizing, agitating. I can’t imagine these jobs are all that bad. People these days are begging for more hours.
Then you won’t understand.
Look at the BIG picture.
The wages do sound low. The mfg and tech jobs in the Bay Area paid more than that even ten years ago
“Can’t ANY businesses out there solve their problems without the media, and the government being involved?”
You are involved. Every Tesla purchased receives a $10,000 taxpayer provided subsidy. Here in California Tesla drivers get to use the taxpayer subsidized carpool lane even if there is only one occupant in the car.
My guess is union auto workers have encountered the tech culture.
Prior to Trump, Tesla could respond to the union by simply moving offshore. I’m not sure that’s an option now... but they could move it to Biloxi.
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Tesla is building and partially completed the largest factory (batteries) in the world not too far away in Nevada. They’ve already bought options on vacant land around it.
When Californicatia become a separate nation they can write their own laws....and pay for them.
If my opinion is so important to you, then tell me what it is that you want me to know. I see a bunch of “disgruntled” workers who should be thanking God they have a job at all and are now calling on the AFL-CIO to take over and put them all out of work.
Do I need to know more?
OTOH, I’ve heard SpaceX employees loudly chanting USA when they’ve pulled off their rocket landings.
Take the union dues out of $25.58 and you get . . .
Doesn’t California have an over time law? Or is 40 hours now considered to much?
Unsafe work conditions? Call OHSA.
“I see a bunch of “disgruntled” workers”
You are reacting to limited input and not seeing theveryone forest for the trees.
” I see a bunch of “disgruntled” workers “
You do know that Elon and the greenies want to shut down your place of employment
We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
Elon Musk
Silicon Valley leftists have driven up the housing prices so much that it’s made San Francisco too expensive to live in for regular people.
I love the band Tesla. Good stuff.
Or move the plant to another part of the country where $17 to $21 an hour will go farther
Tesla is in the NUMMI plant because of CA tax breaks...
The deal was announced a much-anticipated news conference at Tesla's Palo Alto headquarters. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the deal for NUMMI was made possible by tax incentives and credited Treasurer Bill Lockyer for finding available incentives.
“There are some politicians still calling these ‘tax loopholes’ and making the corporate side look negative or bad,” Schwarzenegger said. “These are not loopholes, these are incentives that are putting great people to work.”
Musk said the state is providing a sales tax abatement of about 10 percent on capital equipment purchasing — or somewhere around $20 million over the next couple years.
Housing prices in the Bay Area having been higher (by factors of three or more) than other places in the country for scores of years
Location location lication
Get rid of the subsidy and car pool privilege and see how long they last. I was watching one here in the snow in VA and wondered if the driver was nervous in traffic with heat required. I would be.
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