Tesla workers in New York are trying to form the company’s first union

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The employees behind the effort work on Tesla’s Autopilot.

in California last year that were doing similar Autopilot training work.

Employees at Gigafactory 2 are also asking for a reduction in productivity pressures they say are negatively affecting their well-being. Workers speaking tosaid Tesla uses computer and keyboard monitoring to track and time their tasks, leaving some to feel forced to skip bathroom breaks. On Valentine’s Day, the employees plan to distribute themed flyers throughout the plant to get workers in the facility to visit a site and sign union cards.

Unionization efforts began before fall of last year, with communications facilitated through a Discord server. Then, after Tesla had reportedly closed an internal channel where employees voiced their issues, the workers moved forward with building an organizing committee. An employee at the plant, Sara Costantino, toldthey don’t really have a voice within the company. “The voice we did have, they took away,” Costantino said.

Tesla has been hit with many legal complaints accusing the company of stymieing unionization efforts. In December, the

 

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Best paid auto industry employees. The most popular company for engineers to apply... Corrupt UAW unions have done nothing for GM, Ford employees to get the same level as Tesla... 🍿Would love to see employees actually dumping the union idea

Last paragraph: 'Musk has previously claimed he’s not anti-union, inviting the UAW to hold a unionization vote at Tesla’s Fremont factory and saying the company “will do nothing to stop them.”

Elon literally stated multiple times that workers can form a union

INB4 ol'Musky squashes their tweets.

Fair play to them. I’ve never been a member of a union, but I can see their benefits in certain industries.

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