• Jaysyn@kbin.social
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    I predict Elon pulling an illegal stunt & getting busted in reaction to this.

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      I predict him pulling an illegal stunt and getting off scot-free because he’s wealthy and has aligned himself with the christofascist party that doesn’t support the rule being used against its own.

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      Oh yeah. He drinks his own Kool-aid and sees himself as some unstoppable titan, when the reality is he’s just an egotistical fancy lad.

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      I predict he fires everyone and hires people on H1B visas using a contractor.

      Edit: Even if the NLRB forces him to recognize the union he can just pull a Starbucks and refuse to negotiate. Meanwhile he can drag out every wrongful termination suite and still hire people on H1B visas and save who knows how much doing so.

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      Let him fire the whole workforce, that will set back Tesla years, they may never recover. I wish the workers the best.

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      Didn’t he already try that at twitter and had to backpedal? They weren’t even trying to unionize in that case.

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      How has the biggest name in EVs become so hated here? I get that Lemmy wants to see everyone in an apartment, but not everyone is going to migrate to the city. Is Lemmy suggesting those that stay in rural areas just keep driving gas powered cars?

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        Tesla use to be the only widely recognized source for EVs. Nowadays people who buy new ones find out how poorly put together they are. There are more options available and ev charging stations are popping up even in my smaller town.

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        Lemmy wants to see everyone in a free single family house that doesn’t disrupt the natural environment in any way, also it comes with free food and free utilities, and theres no roads and no cars.

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          I’d settle for Elon selling all his companies and taking a 50-year holiday on a private island quietly enjoying his 200 billion and we never hear from his stupid ass again.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The current strike, the first in UAW history to target all of the big three simultaneously, is to a large degree an attempt to ensure that “shared prosperity” persists as a genuine thing in the profitable auto industry.

    The fact that unionized workers have higher job satisfaction, lower turnover and a better quality of life doesn’t mean much to the balance sheet-obsessed corporate executives who sit at the bargaining table.

    Tesla already pays its workers significantly less than the big three, and as long as Musk has no union to answer to, he will sit back and savor a UAW win against his competitors that widens that gap.

    This is exactly what auto companies are trying to do every time they move a factory into a poor, anti-union southern state, where they can run it without any pesky interference from anyone trying to empower the people working the line.

    What we cannot have, in the long term, is a situation in which the world’s richest conspiracy-addled Twitter addict uses the UAW’s gains at the Big Three as a chance to increase his market share by sticking it to his own underpaid non-union workforce.

    The public, the politicians and every Tesla owner who would prefer not to be complicit in Gilded Age-style plutocratic inequality all need to lean on the big billionaire baby who can’t imagine having to share.


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