Musk has previously bragged that employee stock awards helped fend off unionization efforts in Tesla factories.
Indeed, Tesla is currently the only major American automaker whose workforce isn’t represented by a union. Musk’s strategy has previously been to pay employees much lower salaries than other American auto companies, offset with those Tesla stock awards.
Now that employee stock holdings are in the toilet, the leverage Musk once had over his laborers is quickly slipping through his fingers. The deeper Tesla’s stocks plummet, the closer Musk pushes his underpaid workforce toward the bargaining table — which would be a huge cut to his own personal fortune.
But that’s something only Tesla’s employees can decide. In the meantime, calls on Musk to step down as Tesla CEO are only getting louder.
Yep. They done fucked up letting this entire country arm themselves to the teeth. It’s time for some armed labor movements on factory floors. Worker takeover of the company.
You expect unions to remain “legal” if that happens?
I expect hungry laborers who watched friends and family die in unsafe working conditions to do what is necessary.
Labor and capital have fought literal battles here before
Yep. They done fucked up letting this entire country arm themselves to the teeth. It’s time for some armed labor movements on factory floors. Worker takeover of the company.
Historically, that’s when we collectively reach for the ammo box. Hopefully we get it right this time.