Workers who help Teslas become robots explore starting a union to avoid same fate

A group of workers employed to label data at Tesla's Autopilot division in Buffalo, New York, launched a campaign to form an official union on Tuesday. Under US law, unions can bargain with employers only if the group is certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Union groups must obtain signatures from at least …

[IceC0ld]

Union for the Win

Good luck to them, the musky one tends to act like he alone has any input on any ideas, the only way to have some form of security is in numbers

you only need to look at Twitter - 8000+ employees, now at 2300 ish ? and yes, they are having a go back at him about it, but a union would allow for a far better attack vector

[Khaptain]

Re: Union for the Win

Won't creating a union only entice E Musk to replace workers with even more robots, thereby killing two birds with one stone ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Union for the Win

I vote to replace musky with a bot, they spout bollocks too.

bing bot and google bot can't be any worse than musky telling lies.

[John Brown (no body)]

email to CEO Elon Musk letting him know they were attempting to unionize

I imagine his initial reaction was a bout of apoplexy :-)

[Michael Wojcik]

Only one?

Only one worker has been fired for speaking out? Clearly Musk hasn't been paying much attention to Tesla, since firing people who contradict his worldview seems to be his favorite hobby.

[DS999]

As of today they've been fired

I'm sure Musk will have some excuse about how they had planned to fire them BEFORE they announced their plans to form a union.