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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 04:04 AM Jul 2020

Workers: Tesla threatens firing if they don't return to jobs

Source: Associated Press


Tom Krisher, Ap Auto Writer
Updated 7:23 pm CDT, Wednesday, July 1, 2020

DETROIT (AP) — Some Tesla workers and labor activists say the company is threatening to fire employees who haven’t returned to the company’s California factory since it reopened because they're afraid of catching the coronavirus.

The group wants the practice to stop, and it also wants state and county officials to do a better job making sure proper safety procedures are followed at the factory in Fremont, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

“There are people we are paying to keep us safe, and they’re just turning the other cheek,” said Tesla worker Carlos Gabriel, who is among the organizers of a rally scheduled for Thursday at the Alameda County Public Health Department in Oakland. “They should be holding (Tesla CEO) Elon Musk accountable.”

A Tesla spokesman wouldn’t immediately comment Wednesday, but company officials said at a public hearing on tax incentives in Texas last week that claims of Fremont workers being fired are untrue. Tesla has released plans to maintain worker safety including temperature checks, the wearing of gloves and masks, installing barriers between workers and maintaining social distancing. In early May, Musk told workers that they didn’t have to return to the plant if they weren’t comfortable with it.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Workers-Tesla-threatens-firing-if-they-don-t-15380778.php

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yuiyoshida

(41,759 posts)
2. He is asking them to risk working among people who might be carrying Covid 19
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 05:07 AM
Jul 2020

I don't care how healthy you are.. not everyone survives this... and he could be contributing to his employees deaths... guess he will be willing to pay for the funerals? I doubt it.

brooklynite

(93,834 posts)
10. Tell us, what's on your shopping list at the grocery store?
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 03:49 PM
Jul 2020

Everyone here is willing to have some people work with potential infection risk.

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
11. and those who survive this can end up with lifelong ailments like dementia, heart,lung disease, ect
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 03:50 PM
Jul 2020

0nirevets

(390 posts)
4. Elon Musk is, was, always will be about the money. People are expendable.
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 09:02 AM
Jul 2020

Musk is a Trump-humper, this is widely known. Now we know he is also a psychopath. Had he been around in 1940, he would have stood proudly on the stage with Hitler. Like Tesla, he probably thinks eugenics would have been a great policy.

For him, protecting his staff and laborers from potential exposure to a deadly virus is a secondary concern to keeping the money machine rolling at break-neck speed.

FreddyWhite

(69 posts)
5. what is wrong with that man?????
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 09:33 AM
Jul 2020

Before this BS, I had a good opinion of Tesla simply because of electric cars. But now, forget it.

NNadir

(33,368 posts)
8. I have never understood the admiration this twerp enjoys here.
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 01:15 PM
Jul 2020

His car is built on the slave labor of children in the Congo region, and while he pretends to give a shit, he actually doesn't.

The car, by the way, is not good for the environment; it's a chit in a shell game.

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