These past few weeks have not been great for asshole gaffer on Twitter .
Tesla and its CEO , Elon Musk , violated several federal labour laws with their union - busting elbow grease over the years , an administrative police force jurist ruled Friday perBloomberg . The opinion cited a2018 tweetfrom Musk ’s personal write up among the violation in which he seemed to imply that employees who unionized would lose their ship’s company - pay gunstock alternative .
Nothing stopping Tesla squad at our car plant from voting join . Could do so tmrw if they wanted . But why pay union due & give up neckcloth option for nothing ? Our safety track record is 2X good than when flora was UAW & everybody already have healthcare .
Photo: Charley Gallay (Getty)
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)May 21 , 2018
It ’s only his modish in a serial ofgodawfultweetsto straightaway legal action mechanism , including thatinfamous “ $ 420″tweet that cost Tesla$20 millionin a settlement with the SEC . He by and by called that one totally “ worth it ” , which may explain why after all this he still has yet to lumber - off Twitter .
Also on Friday , the National Labor Relations Board recruit a charge against the publishing house of conservative word issue the Federalist concern a similarly anti - Federal tweet , Bloomberg Law reported . “ [ F]irst one of you tries to unionize I imprecate I ’ll send you back to the common salt mine , ” the outlet ’s co - beginner , Ben Domenech , put up in June , prompting an employee to begin filing an unfair labor practice session commission with the NLRB .
Though the employee later withdraw the charge , the panel is continue to go after legal refuge and demands the tweet be blue-pencil . According to a complaint obtained by Bloomberg Law , the board contends Domenech and the publication “ threatened employee with reprisals and implicitly threaten employee with reprisal and implicitly threatened employee with loss of their job if they formed or supported a union . ”
And because bad news always do in threes , these growing come on the heels of a yet another sorry - tweet incident last calendar month . There the founding father of on-line mutation outlet Barstool Sports , Dave Portnoy , dare his employees to just try form a union so he could “ nail their piddling union to smithereens ” in ablog postthat sounded every chip like it was written by a playground bully . He later fired off a series of tweets threatening to send away and sue any employees who spoke to pairing lawyers . Within hours they were blue-pencil , though , after the nation ’s magnanimous unification , the AFL - CIO , start say on Twitter that his response broke Union DoL ordinance , perBloomberg Law .
As for Friday ’s Tesla ruling , the judge described several “ unfair labor movement recitation ” under the National Relations Act that occurred at the company ’s Fremont , California manufacturing plant . This included instating strict company pattern governing the dispersion of pro - Federal pamphlet , grill workers about their union activities , and separate employees that conjugation efforts would be “ otiose ” , per the ruling .
Tesla did not immediately respond to Gizmodo ’s asking for comment . In all likelihood , though , an prayer is not far off . The jurist order Tesla to reinstate and give back salary to a pro - union employee the company fired among a bevy of remedial action . regrettably , none of these involved Musk deleting his Twitter account .
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