Tesla Inc. committed a series of violations of the National Labor Relations Act in 2017 and last year, a judge ruled Friday.
The electric-car maker illegally threatened and retaliated against employees, according to Amita Baman Tracy, an administrative law judge in California. Athat Elon Musk sent in May 2018, which suggested employees who chose to join a union would give up company-paid stock options, was among the incidents the judge ruled were in violation of the law.
Musk wrote: “Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare.” Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare.The judge’s order calls for Tesla to offer reinstatement and back pay to a fired, pro-union employee, and to revoke a warning issued to another union supporter.
Representatives for Tesla, which had denied wrongdoing, didn’t immediately comment. The ruling was issued in response toThe judge’s ruling can be appealed to NLRB members who are presidential appointees based in Washington, a prospect that all sides have suggested is basically inevitable. “This will be appealed no matter what I decide,” Tracy said at one point during the trial last year in Oakland.
The NLRB is limited in its ability to punish companies found to have violated labor law. While the agency can require that companies reinstate and pay back wages to workers who were illegally fired, it can’t assess punitive damages or hold executives personally liable for violations.Still, the judge’s ruling against Tesla offers grist to UAW supporters in making their case to workers and elected officials in California who have“This entire trial is an infomercial in an effort to place Mr.
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