Employees Accuse Tesla of Unfair Labor Practices
The American Prospect reports that employees at Tesla’s Fremont, California plant have filed an unfair labor practice charge against the company with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), accusing Tesla of “illegal surveillance, coercion, intimidation, and prevention of worker communications”:
Workers at Tesla’s Fremont, California, electric car factory have filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), accusing the company of illegal surveillance, coercion, intimidation, and prevention of worker communications. The employees, who have been attempting to organize the approximately 7,000 workers at the plant through the United Auto Workers, claim that Tesla violated multiple sections of the National Labor Relations Act, which protects the right to unionize.