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Tesla worker: long hours, low pay and unsafe conditions
San Jose Mercury ^ | February 10, 2017 | Louis Hansen

Posted on 02/10/2017 6:12:16 AM PST by artichokegrower

Disgruntled Tesla employees have reached out to the United Automobile Workers, claiming they work long hours for low pay under unsafe conditions while the electric vehicle company sets aggressive production deadlines.

California lawmakers have also questioned Tesla for making its employees sign broad confidentiality agreements, which they say chill worker communications.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: tesla; teslamotors; uaw; unionthugs
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To: artichokegrower

If you don’t like the job or the conditions, go find another job, then quit.


21 posted on 02/10/2017 6:50:46 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Building the Wall, NOW!)
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To: headstamp 2

Unions don’t wield political power like before. I think the left is looking for greener pastures. And many of the union people have become Trump supporters because you can’t even have a union if there is no factory!


22 posted on 02/10/2017 6:51:42 AM PST by bigtoona (Make America Great Again! America First!)
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To: JimRed

The employees complaining are probably being organized by union agitators. This is how they try to shoehorn into a company. Its simply community organizing, agitating. I can’t imagine these jobs are all that bad. People these days are begging for more hours.


23 posted on 02/10/2017 6:53:36 AM PST by bigtoona (Make America Great Again! America First!)
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To: P-Marlowe

Then you won’t understand.


24 posted on 02/10/2017 6:53:38 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: FrankR

Look at the BIG picture.


25 posted on 02/10/2017 6:55:00 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: artichokegrower

The wages do sound low. The mfg and tech jobs in the Bay Area paid more than that even ten years ago


26 posted on 02/10/2017 6:59:10 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: FrankR

“Can’t ANY businesses out there solve their problems without the media, and the government being involved?”

You are involved. Every Tesla purchased receives a $10,000 taxpayer provided subsidy. Here in California Tesla drivers get to use the taxpayer subsidized carpool lane even if there is only one occupant in the car.


27 posted on 02/10/2017 7:02:19 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

My guess is union auto workers have encountered the tech culture.


28 posted on 02/10/2017 7:03:41 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: marron

Prior to Trump, Tesla could respond to the union by simply moving offshore. I’m not sure that’s an option now... but they could move it to Biloxi.

...

Tesla is building and partially completed the largest factory (batteries) in the world not too far away in Nevada. They’ve already bought options on vacant land around it.


29 posted on 02/10/2017 7:04:10 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: artichokegrower

When Californicatia become a separate nation they can write their own laws....and pay for them.


30 posted on 02/10/2017 7:04:54 AM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: TexasGator

If my opinion is so important to you, then tell me what it is that you want me to know. I see a bunch of “disgruntled” workers who should be thanking God they have a job at all and are now calling on the AFL-CIO to take over and put them all out of work.

Do I need to know more?


31 posted on 02/10/2017 7:07:48 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: polymuser

OTOH, I’ve heard SpaceX employees loudly chanting USA when they’ve pulled off their rocket landings.


32 posted on 02/10/2017 7:07:57 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: marron

Take the union dues out of $25.58 and you get . . .

Doesn’t California have an over time law? Or is 40 hours now considered to much?

Unsafe work conditions? Call OHSA.


33 posted on 02/10/2017 7:08:23 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: P-Marlowe

“I see a bunch of “disgruntled” workers”

You are reacting to limited input and not seeing theveryone forest for the trees.


34 posted on 02/10/2017 7:14:02 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: P-Marlowe

” I see a bunch of “disgruntled” workers “

You do know that Elon and the greenies want to shut down your place of employment

We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

Elon Musk


35 posted on 02/10/2017 7:19:26 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: Nifster

Silicon Valley leftists have driven up the housing prices so much that it’s made San Francisco too expensive to live in for regular people.


36 posted on 02/10/2017 7:37:46 AM PST by bar sin·is·ter
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To: artichokegrower

I love the band Tesla. Good stuff.


37 posted on 02/10/2017 7:44:30 AM PST by Hyman Roth
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To: marron
Not a lot of money in the Bay Area. Still, people will no doubt take those jobs because in the Obama economy, there aren't a lot of alternatives. As the economy recovers, though, there will be alternatives and Tesla will have to compensate its people accordingly.

Or move the plant to another part of the country where $17 to $21 an hour will go farther


Tesla is in the NUMMI plant because of CA tax breaks...

The deal was announced a much-anticipated news conference at Tesla's Palo Alto headquarters. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the deal for NUMMI was made possible by tax incentives and credited Treasurer Bill Lockyer for finding available incentives.

“There are some politicians still calling these ‘tax loopholes’ and making the corporate side look negative or bad,” Schwarzenegger said. “These are not loopholes, these are incentives that are putting great people to work.”

Musk said the state is providing a sales tax abatement of about 10 percent on capital equipment purchasing — or somewhere around $20 million over the next couple years.

38 posted on 02/10/2017 7:50:07 AM PST by az_gila
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To: bar sin·is·ter

Housing prices in the Bay Area having been higher (by factors of three or more) than other places in the country for scores of years

Location location lication


39 posted on 02/10/2017 7:53:05 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: artichokegrower

Get rid of the subsidy and car pool privilege and see how long they last. I was watching one here in the snow in VA and wondered if the driver was nervous in traffic with heat required. I would be.


40 posted on 02/10/2017 7:56:41 AM PST by Oldexpat
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