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UAW Looks to Organize Tesla (formerly the NUMMI plant in Fremont)
UAW Looks to Organize Teslahttp://www.1853chairman.com/2013/08/08/uaw-looks-to-organize-tesla/
The United Auto Workers has set up an organizing committee at the Tesla Motors plant in Fremont, CA, but says it is meeting with resistance from management despite CEO Elon Musk’s pledge to let the workers decide whether they want union representation.
UAW President Bob King tells WardsAuto his group is actively looking to recruit workers at the Tesla factory, which is building 400 battery-electric vehicles each week. The plant employs about 2,000 people, but not all are production workers the union is targeting, he says.
“It’s growing fast,” King says of the support for the committee. Establishing a pro-union committee is only the first step in any UAW organizing drive.
The UAW has met with Musk, and King says the Tesla founder was “very open and said he would respect what the workers wanted. But his operating management has done the opposite. The operating management has taken a very anti-union stance.
UAW President Bob King tells WardsAuto his group is actively looking to recruit workers at the Tesla factory, which is building 400 battery-electric vehicles each week. The plant employs about 2,000 people, but not all are production workers the union is targeting, he says.
“It’s growing fast,” King says of the support for the committee. Establishing a pro-union committee is only the first step in any UAW organizing drive.
The UAW has met with Musk, and King says the Tesla founder was “very open and said he would respect what the workers wanted. But his operating management has done the opposite. The operating management has taken a very anti-union stance.
Musk has hired a union avoidance specialist (union buster) to head HR. He has also rehired former NUMMI managers (non-union) to be used to keep out the union. Rehiring the managers is a classic union busting move. They know who the pro-union workers were and who were the "scabs". They will hired based on a certain profile.... unquestioning obedience.
Here's what happened to some of the former NUMMI workers:
http://www.sfgate.com/business/bottomline/article/A-brutal-Labor-Day-for-some-ex-Nummi-workers-4780318.php
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