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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has accused one of his employees of being a union agitator working on behalf of the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW):
Earlier today, a Tesla employee wrote a post on Medium alleging that he and fellow Tesla employees at the company's Fremont, California manufacturing facility endure "excessive mandatory overtime," lower-than-average pay, and frequent injuries. Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to the claims in a series of private Twitter messages to Gizmodo by calling the employee, who wrote under the name Jose Moran, a pro-union agitator working on behalf of the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW).
"Our understanding is that this guy was paid by the UAW to join Tesla and agitate for a union," Musk says. The Tesla chief goes on to call Moran an employee of UAW, working on behalf of the union and not Tesla. When asked about his stance on unions, Musk describes Tesla as a "union neutral" company.
Meanwhile, Reuters reported that Tesla has paused production at its California assembly plant to prepare for the production of the company's long-awaited Model 3 sedan.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2017, @03:13PM
Further, Tesla still hired this guy. If he misrepresented his skill set and is not fit for the job, then he should've been fired already.
The person is an employee of four years. [medium.com]
This whole narrative of him being a "union plant" is exactly the kind of bullshit smear I would expect from a company that needs a union.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 11 2017, @04:02AM
You can never be certain that working for a so-called "Big Name" is all rollerblades and foosball and free-beer Fridays. I heard the SpaceX guys are also overworked like dogs and underpaid for what they do, because they are working for a name (and likely also a cause). I hear Apple workers are underpaid as well, but they tend to be brand fanatics. And if you've been reading about Amazon's work environment for not only its warehouse workers but its white-collar employees as well, you'd believe it were a miserable shithole not worth any salary. There's a big name here in northern San Diego with a campus that looks like a modern art museum, but its employees are overworked and miserable and are laid off every few months, maybe a year if they're one of the better ones. If you can identify them without mentioning their name, I'll buy you a beer.
Just the other day I got a recruitment call from some shitty recruiter who was obviously a Pajeet halfway around the world, trying to get me into an interview with Qualcomm (I'm no stranger to those, actually). He offered me a position for $19 an hour and I told him to go fuck himself and he said, "B-but it's Qualcomm! They're a BIG NAME!" I told him I was already working for a big name and told him to go fuck himself again. He called me back and offered me a hardware/firmware debugger position for $21 an hour (I interviewed for the same position months earlier at the offer of $26 an hour) and I told him that I was even more offended and again told him to go fuck himself.
He still calls and e-mails me. I don't return his calls or e-mails.