The NLRB backed a ruling from a U.S. labor judge in 2019
that the electric-car maker had committed a series of violations of the
National Labor Relations Act in 2017 and 2018.
"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", Musk wrote in the
May 2018 tweet https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/998454539941367808.
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
The board ordered Tesla to direct Musk to delete the tweet
and to post a notice addressing the unlawful tweet at all of its facilities
nationwide and include language that says "WE WILL take appropriate steps
to ensure Musk complies with our directive."
The United Auto Workers (UAW)in 2018 filed a complaint with the NLRB over the Musk tweet that it said was illegally threatening to take away benefits from workers who join the union. https://bit.ly/39hYunl
At that time, the UAW was seeking to represent workers at
Tesla's facility in Fremont, who are not unionized.
Tesla and the UAW did not immediately comment on the NRLB
decision.
The NLRB also directed Tesla to offer one former employee
reinstatement as well as to rescind 2017 rules that prohibited distributing
union literature in its parking lot on non-work time and rules that barred
distributing union stickers, leaflets, and pamphlets without first obtaining
permission.
Tesla in 2018 defended Musk's comment, saying it simply
recognized that other automakers whose workers are represented by the UAW do
not provide stock options.
In a separate tweet, Musk had accused the UAW of driving
General Motors and Chrysler to bankruptcy and losing "200,000+ jobs for people
they were supposed to protect."
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