Tesla workers accuse Twitter of hiding their union account from search results
for $44 billion last year, is known to be a staunch union critic. In 2018, he tweeted that there was nothing stopping Tesla workers from joining a union in response to someone asking about reports that the company had anti-union management. However, he also asked:"[W]hy pay union dues [and] give up stock options for nothing[?]" The NLRBthat the tweet violated labor laws, deeming it as a threat that employees would be giving up company-paid stock options if they unionize.
The workers behind this particular campaign are in charge of labeling data from Tesla's Autopilot technology. They previously toldthat they're asking the company not just for better pay, but also for better working conditions. The workers said Tesla monitors their keystrokes to determine how much time they spend on each task, and that they've had to skip bathroom breaks as a result.
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