Judge RULES: Tesla Violated Labor Laws By Illegally Threatening And Retaliating Against Employees

Tesla Inc. committed a series of violations of the National Labor Relations Act in 2017 and last year, a judge ruled Friday.

The electric-car maker illegally threatened and retaliated against employees, according to Amita Baman Tracy, an administrative law judge in California. A tweet that Elon Musk sent in May 2018, which suggested employees who chose to join a union would give up company-paid stock options, was among the incidents the judge ruled were in violation of the law.

The judge’s order calls for Tesla to offer reinstatement and back-pay to a fired, pro-union employee, and to revoke a warning issued to another union supporter. The ruling also calls for the company to hold a meeting at its assembly plant in Fremont, California, that Musk must attend. Either he or an agent with the labor board must read a notice to employees informing them that the NLRB concluded the company broke the law...
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MDarringer - 9/28/2019 3:38:35 PM

+3 Boost

Beat me it.

SanJoseDriver - 9/29/2019 3:11:53 AM

-5 Boost

If you could afford it, perhaps you could go to the moon within 10 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOpMrVnjYeY

valhallakey - 9/30/2019 2:43:06 AM

+3 Boost

If so they should be punished as appropriate under the law!