Go read this LATimes story by margotroosevelt and russ1mitchell to get former Tesla employees’ experiences with racism in their own words.
that worker $137 million after finding the company turned a blind eye to racial taunts and offensive graffiti.
The job paid $18 an hour and entailed six- or seven-day weeks, with 12-hour shifts. The overtime was mandatory. The two men would laugh at her and regularly referred to Black workers with racist slurs in English and Spanish, she said. When she objected, they would say “Shut up, n—.” On the assembly line, Black workers were given the most arduous jobs, such as installing dashboards, she said.
By December 2018, she said, “I was at my breaking point.” She visited a psychologist at Kaiser Permanente and took a month’s medical leave because of stress. After two written warnings, Tesla said, Romby complained “her supervisors were unprofessional toward her, but never stated that these supervisors used racial slurs or treated her differently because of race.”While regulators investigate a spate of Teslas steering themselves into parked vehicles, Tesla owners have been reporting faulty collision-avoidance systems.
He did pick up on some ominous overtones as he moved around the factory. He’d overhear white supervisors berate Black, Asian and Latino workers, often directing the N-word at Black employees. “Things like, ‘Tell that n— to get over here.” Nigel Jones worked for three years at the Tesla plant in Fremont. His mother, Rhonda Lockhart, right, said she had him get a lawyer when he told her about discrimination and harassment on the job.
His previous boss had been a good communicator, Jones said. But with the new boss, “we’d miss communications. He wouldn’t be telling me things I needed to know. It seemed like he was trying to make me look bad, like we weren’t doing anything.”and two Black co-workers “monkeys,” he said. “Once, he walked away saying, ‘Oh you lazy n—.’ We looked at each other and said, ‘What?’”
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