Elon We won’t back down by introducing Tesla-Send Musk on autopilot to Mars : Indybay

The campaign to send Elon to Mars on autopilot began at the Tesla Fremont car plant, where 20,000 workers work in slave conditions. Black workers say it’s like working on a plantation. There was also a first presentation of Elon’s “Rocket to Mars” painting by Bay Area artist Andrew Kong Knight, and the Angry Tired Teachers performed for Tesla workers.

On February 10, 23, the Tesla Fremont assembly plant launched a campaign to send Elon to Mars on autopilot. Angry Tired Teachers also performed, and Elon’s first discovery during his flight to Mars was presented by Andrew Knight. The Tesla employees enjoyed the performance and the opening and even contributed to the group.

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California sues Tesla for alleged discrimination and racial slurs at the plant

Economy February 10, 2022 7:36 pm EST
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — California regulators are suing Tesla Inc. alleging that the electric car maker discriminates against black employees who are compared to monkeys and slaves at the San Francisco Bay Area plant where most of its fancy cars are made. . .

The explosive lawsuit is likely to widen the rift between Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, and the state in which he founded the company. Tesla is now worth over $900 billion, less than 20 years after Musk set out to transform the auto industry.

Musk moved Tesla’s headquarters from Palo Alto, California to Austin, Texas last year after publicly feuding with California authorities over whether Tesla’s factory should remain closed in the spring of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic was still underway. early stage.

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The 39-page lawsuit, filed late Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, describes Tesla’s move to Texas as an attempt to evade responsibility for “turning a blind eye to years of complaints from black workers who are protesting routine use of racist slurs on the assembly line.”

In response to complaints, the lawsuit alleges that Musk told workers to be “thick-skinned” about racial harassment, promoting a culture that is slowly removing racist graffiti and other hateful symbols scribbled around the factory.

In addition to the N-word, other racist language used at the factory includes descriptions comparing black workers to “porch rats” and “hooded rats” and suggestions to “go back to Africa,” according to the lawsuit. The complaint also alleges that the factory was racially segregated, causing the area where black workers worked to be derided as a “work ship” or “plantation”.

Before the lawsuit became known, Tesla preemptively posted a statement on its website criticizing what it called the “unfair and counterproductive” lawsuit.

The company claims that over the past five years, the agency has been asked to investigate allegations of discrimination and harassment almost 50 times, and each investigation has been closed without finding any evidence of wrongdoing.

“Therefore, the credibility of the agency, which, after a three-year investigation, claims that systematic racial discrimination and harassment somehow existed at Tesla,” the company wrote, trying to present the lawsuit as a publicity stunt.

According to the lawsuit, the allegations against Tesla arose from a 32-month investigation into its discriminatory practices. The complaint seeks the return of wages to black employees who were unfairly passed over for promotions and promotions, the reinstatement of workers who lost their jobs for discriminatory reasons, and punitive damages.

Musk, who frequently uses his 73 million-follower Twitter account to comment on issues affecting Tesla, had not posted anything about the discrimination lawsuit as of late Thursday.

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This isn’t the first time Tesla’s treatment of its roughly 15,000 employees at its Fremont, California plant has come under scrutiny. The plant, located about 40 miles (65 km) southeast of San Francisco, remains Tesla’s largest electric vehicle maker, even as the company has opened additional plants, including a new one in Texas.

Last October, a federal jury awarded $137 million in damages to a former black elevator operator who claimed he faced daily racist slurs and other forms of harassment while working at a Fremont plant in 2015 and 2016 before leaving. Tesla is appealing the verdict and denying any knowledge of racist behavior that former elevator operator Owen Diaz said took place at the plant.

And then more than half a dozen current and former Tesla employees filed another lawsuit, alleging that the company did not take adequate steps to protect them from sexual harassment. Tesla is trying to take these complaints to arbitration.

David Lowe, one of the lawyers representing the women accusing Tesla of sexual harassment, called the latest lawsuit a prime example of the “incredibly toxic culture and environment that many of these employees work in,” which seems to go against his reputation. a company at the forefront of technology.

Tesla “is so advanced on one level,” Lowe said, “but when it comes to how its employees are treated and racial and sexual harassment, it’s almost like a company from another era. They are so far behind in how they treat their employees.”

According to the company’s latest employment report, about 10% of Tesla’s employees in the US are black, and 21% are women.

AP videographer Terry Chea contributed to the story.

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