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Court says Tesla and Musk's tweet violated labor laws
Tesla broke labor laws by interfering with legitimate union organizing, among other things, California administrative law judge Amita Baman Tracy has ruled. The automaker apparently committed a number of violations against the National Labor Relations Act in 2017 and 2018, the court decided regarding the complaints filed by the United Auto Workers union. According to Bloomberg and Reuters, one of the violations cited in the filing is a tweet by company chief Elon Musk. In the tweet, he said that there's nothing stopping its car plant employees from organizing, but he also asked: "[W]hy pay union dues [and] give up stock options for nothing[?]"
Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 21, 2018
Musk's statement was a response to someone asking about the reports that came out last year accusing Tesla of having poor workplace safety and of having an anti-union management. The court said the tweet amounts to threatening employees that they'd be giving up company-paid stock options if they join a union.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday October 01 2019, @09:54AM (1 child)
In advertising to a general and presumably somewhat naïve population; e.g. rural folks reached via thrifty nickel, there is a presumption that no one would spend a penny on anything ridiculous without understanding that the ridiculous was an exaggeration.
In advertising to other audiences, and particularly if the advertiser has no solid political connections, well, it's gone up and down. Hope you're not down.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 01 2019, @03:48PM
You really want to compare advertising to a CEO publicly threatening union organizers?
Bartender, I'll have what he's having!
I mean I'm with you, I too think advertising should be held to the same standards this judge is using ;)