Several employees at a Tesla factory in New York have been fired a day after launching union organizing efforts, according to Tesla Workers United.
factory in New York have been fired a day after launching union organizing efforts, according to Tesla Workers United.
“We’re angry. This won’t slow us down. This won’t stop us,” Sara Costantino, a current Tesla employee and organizing committee member, said in a prepared statement. “They want us to be scared, but I think they just started a stampede. We can do this. But I believe we will do this.”The Tesla plant, which makes solar panels and other renewable-energy technology, is not far from a Starbucks location where workers voted to unionize last year.
“I feel blindsided, I got COVID and was out of the office, then I had to take a bereavement leave. I returned to work, was told I was exceeding expectations and then Wednesday came along,” organizing committee member Arian Berek, who is one of the fired employees, said in a statement. “I strongly feel this is in retaliation to the committee announcement, and it’s shameful.”
In the complaint, the group lists the names of several employees who were part of the factory’s autopilot department that were fired. The group says that it believes Tesla “terminated these individuals in retaliation for union activity and to discourage union activity.” It is asking the National Labor Relations Board for injunctive relief “to prevent irreparable destruction of employee rights resulting from Tesla’s unlawful conduct.
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