The Toxic Culture at Tesla -"rife with racial harassment, sexual abuse, and injuries on the job." - The Nation

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The Toxic Culture at Tesla

The factory floors at America’s top seller of electric vehicles are rife with racial harassment, sexual abuse, and injuries on the job.

The Nation | BRYCE COVERT | April 9, 2024

The end of 2020 was drawing near, and Andrea Turley, a 36-year-old self-employed hairdresser, had to figure out how to afford gifts not only for her two daughters’ birthdays but also for Christmas. She came up with a solution: a job working on the floor of Tesla’s auto manufacturing facility in Fremont, California. It paid about $20 an hour.

Turley’s grandparents had worked at the same plant when it made cars for General Motors. She knew what working on an assembly line would entail and hoped to stay; her grandparents had worked there for decades. “I don’t have a problem with doing hard labor,” she told me.

“The problem was the sexual harassment. It was the racism,” she said. “It’s the constant disrespect.”

On her second day of training, Turley noticed the phrase “Black bitches need to go home” written on the bathroom walls. Once she started working on the line, she heard her white male lead—the person who supervised her on the floor—use the N-word and other racial slurs like “coon,” according to a legal complaint she filed later. He also frequently used the words “bitch” and “cunt.” He “used just about every awful and offensive word I can think of,” Turley said in the filing. It wasn’t just him; other white coworkers also often used the N-word around her and her fellow Black coworkers. She frequently saw the word “bitch” written on the bathroom walls alongside the N-word and “KKK.”

Turley likes to wear layers, dressing like a “tomboy,” she said. Her lead and another coworker started making comments about her being gay, harassing her for her appearance.

Turley had never experienced anything like it at a workplace before. “Never,” she said. In her filing, she wrote: “Every day that I had to show up to work was difficult for me; it was hard to walk into the factory knowing the treatment that I was going to face.” In late December 2020, she sent Tesla’s human resources department a complaint laying out her lead’s racial and sexual harassment. The company didn’t address the issue, she said...more
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tesla-racism-sexual-harassment/
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Exposed to the elements: In Fremont, California, Tesla has erected production tents outside of its main plant; workers say Black employees are disproportionately assigned to work there. (Bloomberg / Getty Images)

Elon, demonstrating his usual deference to Authorities, this time to the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2020

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A Clown Show! Helps to remember that this repulsive persons grandchildren's grandchildren's kids won't ever have to lift a middle finger their entire lives. 200+ BILLION $ extracted from an economy spiraling into the gutter. Yet he's somehow allowed to release something he calls "Full Self Driving" (that doesn't exist anywhere on the planet yet) into the public, while government agencies look the other way.

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1. Horrible. And I'm not surprised.

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2. Sign that UAW card.

Stronger together.

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3. You can bet...

... that racist bag of South African ratshit encourages such obscene behavior from the lowlifes on the assembly line. What filth.