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 havent returned to the companys 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 theyre 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 wouldnt 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 didnt have to return to the plant if they werent comfortable with it.
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duforsure
(11,882 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,759 posts)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)Everyone here is willing to have some people work with potential infection risk.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)0nirevets
(390 posts)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)Before this BS, I had a good opinion of Tesla simply because of electric cars. But now, forget it.
2naSalit
(86,031 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)Elon Musk wants to throw a really big COVID Party.
NNadir
(33,368 posts)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.