Why bosses abhor unions
Unions do and can get things improved.
But, like universal health care, American’s are shit scared of anything that has a scent of “socialism”.
Your mileage will vary.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is taking Tesla back to the hearing chamber, this time to settle whether it interfered with the organizing rights of employees at its factory in Buffalo, New York. In its complaint [PDF], the NLRB alleges that Tesla's Acceptable Use Policy for Workplace Technology, put into place …
Not Americans, American CEOs.
It gets in the the way of profits, you see. So American CEOs are actually the spiritual sons of all those bosses in those Dickens stories about the UK during the Industrial Revolution. Workers would lose limbs to the dangerous textile machines, and get fired for it because they couldn't work any more.
Compassion ? That's just a word in the dictionary.
American CEOs think the same way, and Musk is ahread of the pack.
Minor correction: It gets in the way of profits this quarter which means their bonus may be at risk, so CEOs hate unions. However, as a lot of Europe has shown, the relationship between management and unions doesn't have to be an adversarial one. They can coexist peacefully and have a good working relationship that is mutually beneficial. It's just that those benefits are more of a Q4 sort of thing, and it may well be time for CEOs and board members everywhere to play musical chairs and shuffle the deck so they all wind up at different companies.
It's sort of like Obamacare. You ask people if they support the individual aspects of unions (can only be fired for cause, better pay, an advocate if you're accused of doing anything wrong) and virtually everyone will say they support all those things. Then you say, "Well those are all things unions provide" and suddenly they get confused, then angry because you confused them.
The capitalists have perfectly brainwashed masses into believing that anything that hurts elites must fundamentally also be bad for society as a whole. The masses have bought it lock, stock and barrel, willingly voting for policies that hurt the middle class as long as there's a promise of benefiting business.
40 years of this. A stagnant quality of living. But let's keep voting the same way, maybe if we do the same thing we'll get different results this time.
Company's don't want their installed tech to be used by employees to look for new jobs either. It's not a great idea to be sending messages through company servers to advocate doing things the company isn't going to like. It's the same when it comes to using the network to visit certain web sites.
There's also been negative articles about restrictions when it comes to employees bringing and using cell phones while at work. For a "tech" company, allowing photos and video recording isn't seen as a good thing.
So let's see...
* Disastrous Cybertruck launch
* Slowing demand
* Multiple lawsuits alleging racial discrimination
* A CEO who's barely even a part-time employee
* A CEO who is spending most of his time being a right-wing troll on social media and putting customers off the brand
* Multiple government agencies investigating various company actions
* Various other things I don't have the time or energy to list individually
Yeah, that's totally worth a $56bn pay package.
Any actually independent board of directors would have kicked this fuckwit to the curb ages ago. I cannot fathom why shareholders haven't revolted already and demanded Xitler's head on a platter. Calling for new elections for board members if they failed to deliver. Tesla is never going to be able to match the major auto makers. It's just not going to happen. They could, however, potentially carve out a small, but profitable, niche as a luxury EV brand. They just need to dump their zero CEO and hire themselves a hero who can actually save the company from either the oblivion of bankruptcy or becoming just one more brand in the stable of one of the major auto makers like so many other car manufacturers before them.
@aerogems: you have not worked for USA IT outsourcerers in last 30 years have you ?
nearly all CEOs and boards seem to be incestuous business and political alliances worse than the old aristocrats, at least here in Oz. AFAIK, the EU rules on a maximum number of boards a parasite can sit on is A Good Thing