{"id":120326,"date":"2017-10-27T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=120326"},"modified":"2017-10-27T09:05:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:05:20","slug":"tesla-fires-solarcity-employees-smacked-with-nlrb-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2017\/10\/tesla-fires-solarcity-employees-smacked-with-nlrb-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Fires SolarCity Employees, Smacked with NLRB Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UAW filed complaints against Tesla related to the firing of workers at its Fremont, California, plant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tesla Inc. has begun firing employees,\u00a0following performance\u00a0reviews, at is non-automotive\u00a0SolarCity\u00a0subsidiary as it prepares to release\u00a0its third-quarter financial results at time when the company is under some\u00a0intense scrutiny.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meanwhile, United Auto Workers\u00a0filed\u00a0a new round of complaints with the National Labor Relations Board\u00a0in\u00a0Oakland, California,\u00a0in response to the dismissal of employees, including a\u00a0number of\u00a0union supporters, from Tesla’s assembly plant in Fremont, California.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The UAW charges\u00a0the company intimidated\u00a0and harassed employees,\u00a0terminated\u00a0a\u00a0group of employees to discourage protected pro-union activity\u00a0and disciplined employees for wearing items with the UAW logo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In\u00a0addition,\u00a0Tesla\u00a0“terminated\u00a0or disciplined” employees in retaliation\u00a0for participating\u00a0in protected concerted activities, and more, the union said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(Tesla firings spark protests at company’s Fremont,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>California, plant. For the story, <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tesla, which recently fired hundreds of employees from\u00a0its motor\u00a0division for what were described as “performance issues,”\u00a0has not confirmed how many\u00a0employees were\u00a0terminated\u00a0several\u00a0pro-union employees\u00a0were fired from jobs at the company’s factory in Fremont.\u00a0Despite positive\u00a0performance reviews from supervisors.<\/p>\n

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Tesla's firing of hundreds of employees has instigated several employee protests and may have jeopardized tax breaks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Richard Ortiz, one of the workers who was fired by Tesla,\u00a0said\u00a0has\u00a0been an active union advocate for\u00a0months, and\u00a0has been quoted in the press multiple times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Earlier this\u00a0year Ortiz filed charges against the Tesla regarding their\u00a0unlawful confidentiality\u00a0agreement, which prohibits employees from discussing what\u00a0goes on\u00a0inside the company’s factory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ortiz was\u00a0fired last week because he\u00a0violated\u00a0Tesla’s confidentiality\u00a0policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI was fired\u00a0for trying\u00a0to better the lives of my co-workers,\u201d said Ortiz. \u201cI always felt\u00a0this was\u00a0a worthy fight. I knew it wouldn\u2019t make me popular with management, and\u00a0I knew\u00a0there was risk \u2013 but people are getting hurt. People are being paid\u00a0less than\u00a0they\u2019re worth. And people are being treated unfairly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve worked\u00a0in auto manufacturing my whole life,\u201d Ortiz said. \u201cI do not believe \u2013 not for a second \u2013 that I was fired for cause,\u201d he added in\u00a0a statement\u00a0provided by the union.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for more about Tesla firing \u201chundreds\u201d\u00a0of employees.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tesla indicated\u00a0that it would fight the charges filed by the UAW.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“At Tesla, we strive to be a fair and just company, the only kind worth\u00a0being. Performance\u00a0reviews result in promotions and occasionally in employee\u00a0departures,” a\u00a0Tesla spokesperson said after the UAW charged that company had targeted\u00a0union supporters\u00a0when the company dismissed hundreds of employees earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“No one at Tesla has ever or will\u00a0ever have\u00a0any action taken against them based on their feelings on\u00a0unionization. It\u2019s\u00a0worth remembering that each year,” the spokesperson said, noting\u00a0that roughly\u00a020,000 ULPs are filed with the NLRB by unions like the UAW as\u00a0an organizing\u00a0tactic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, Tesla also has begun\u00a0dismissing employees\u00a0from it\u00a0SolarCity\u00a0operation, which installs solar panels\u00a0for residential\u00a0customers, according to several accounts in the tech press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The layoffs at the\u00a0SolarCity\u00a0subsidiary\u00a0come as\u00a0Tesla founder Elon Musk faces a potential challenge in convincing\u00a0investors that\u00a0the company will be able to make good on its\u00a0promise\u00a0to\u00a0start filling the thousands of orders\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0long-awaited Tesla Model 3 in the next few months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(To see why Tesla raised an additional $500M in cash,\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Musk has\u00a0admitted earlier this month that the launch of the Model 3 has been\u00a0delayed by\u00a0what he described as “bottlenecks.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tesla’s under fire again for terminating employees, this time at SolarCity. The UAW filed new charges against Tesla with the NLRB. Get details at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":113842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120326"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=120326"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=120326"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=120326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}