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'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla (www.vice.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla::After the UAW won contracts with the Big Three, it's seeking to unionize 150,000 workers across a dozen companies including Tesla.

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good luck to them.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If they were up against a competent c-suite, this would be a failed effort from the start.

"cybertruck" is going to be a massive flop and and an embarassment and that is a perfect opportunity to "downsize" and have a semi-legit reason to fire anyone who doesn't spit with enough vigor at any calls for unionizing.

But acknowledging that glorified SUV is a flop is a step too far and it will be marketed as a success. Which gets rid of the cover.

I have no idea if UAW will succeed. But I think we are looking at a LOT of wrongful termination lawsuits (speaking of, did the twitter ones go anywhere?) and a massive poorly executed social media campaign on a single dying site.