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Tesla Just Fired Hundreds Of Workers (mercurynews.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the thanks-Elon dept.

An anonymous reader quotes the Bay Area Newsgroup: Tesla fired hundreds of workers this week, including engineers, managers and factory workers, even as the company struggles to expand its manufacturing and product line... The company said this week's dismissals were the result of a company-wide annual review, and insisted they were not layoffs. Some workers received promotions and bonuses, and the company expects to hire for the "vast majority" of new vacancies, a spokesman said. "As with any company, especially one of over 33,000 employees, performance reviews also occasionally result in employee departures," a spokesman said. "Tesla is continuing to grow and hire new employees around the world."
"Tesla has a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board in November for charges that company supervisors and security guards harassed workers distributing union literature," reports the Bay Area Newsgroup, adding that "Openly pro-union workers were among those fired this week. Some believe they were targeted."

Tesla denies this, and says that they've generally boosted morale this week -- by rewarding higher-performing employees.

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  1. Steven Spielberg makes WAY more money.... by Uberbah · · Score: 2, Informative

    I get paid well and I'm not in a union.... Unions are NOT the only way to be fairly paid...

    ...than your unique snowflake ass and he's in a union. So does every professional athlete.

    Also, such "pay us what we define as fair or else" killed every major airline and car maker in the country in the end

    Randian Horseshit. Union workers are entirely dependent on the welfare of the company for their jobs and retirement. As opposed to executives who can drive the company into the ground and collect golden parachutes even in bankruptcy. Like when airline unions accepted massive pay and benefit cuts for US Airways to stay afloat, only for executives to get large severance packages when the company went under.

  2. Re:Not "Layoff"... by TheLongshot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Those who mock unemployment have never been on it. It requires you to report on a weekly basis your job search activities. If you receive an offer and turn it down (because they lowballed you), you need to be able to justify that it wasn't a legitimate offer. Also, what you get is a pittance, hardly enough to live off of. For me, it didn't even pay the bills.

    I was glad to have it, since something is better than nothing, but it isn't exactly free money. (And oh yeah, you still need to pay income tax on it.)

  3. Re:So by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have a friend who used to work at the factory in Fremont. And she's told me plenty of stories that had my jaw dropping about some of the misogynist shitheads there who should really have never been employed at all anywhere, much less in a state with more stringent worker protections like California, and at a Bay Area tech company no less. What she described was well beyond that alt-right MRA idiot's memo at Google. There was full-up harassment: catcalls, direct comments to individuals about "man's work", discrepancies in treatment of women vs. men, classic... and very, very, actionable... "hostile work environment" stuff.

    I encouraged her many times to file complaints and have those people removed. She never got around to doing so before she left. Stock vested, she moved on to greener and friendlier pastures. Perhaps someone else finally did complain, and in the wake of the Google twat, Tesla's HR engaged in a long-overdue housecleaning.