Dozens of Tesla workers in Buffalo, New York, were fired the day after workers announced their unionization campaign, a move that the union says amounts to illegal union busting.
and boost his enormous fortune, likely views a union as a threat to his ability to act with relative impunity.
Firing workers in response to union organizing is an especially disruptive anti-union tactic — and one that union-busting companies use often. In Starbucks workers’ union drive, the company has fired over 200 union leaders, according to the union. The practice has become so common for Starbucks that labor officialsa federal injunction against the company to stop it from firing union supporters, saying that widespread terminations are having a major “chilling effect” on the union campaign.
The National Labor Relations Board has been trying to crack down on this practice. For years, when companies were found to have illegally fired a worker, they were only responsible for the worker’s back pay — essentially just the cost of business. But in December that employers now have to pay for debts incurred by an employee due to the firing, like late rent payments, medical expenses or credit card debt.Friends, we don’t have much time: We need to raise at least $50,000 in the next 9 days to keep publishing.daily, weekly or even once a month, now’s the perfect time to show that you value radically independent journalism. Whether you can give $5 or $500, every dollar gets us closer.
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