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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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          That’s the part of the point of the comment you are replying to. The fines are neither a deterrent nor an inconvenience to those wealthy enough to cover the cost. They use their money, power, and influence to continue to violate law without any other consequences other than pulling out their checkbook. The fines are meaningless to people that wealthy.

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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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      You’d be surprised at how anti-union many Amazon corp workers are, which is hilarious given how fucking shit it can be.

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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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    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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    I believe this may be one of the few times other car manufacturers would lobby the government in favor of unions, since they see Tesla as having an unfair advantage that hurts their bottom line.

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      My experience says that they’d point at non union competition as an excuse to say no to union demands in negotiations.

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    A sad man throwing a fit on his sad little website