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a letter to Tesla management, the employees announced their plan
to unionize with the Workers United Upstate New York.
The union, if formed, would be the first for Tesla, which up
until now has managed to avoid unionization at its U.S.
facilities unlike some other major automakers.
Musk has in the past been vocal about his opposition to unions
and faced the ire of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board
when they directed him to delete a 2018 tweet saying employees
would lose their stock options if they formed a union.
"We believe unionizing will give us a voice in our workplace
that we feel has been ignored to this point," the workers said
in a press release on Tuesday. "We are only asking for a seat in
the car that we helped build."
The letter, first reported by Bloomberg News earlier in the day,
cited employees asking Tesla to respect their right to organize
a union and called on the world's most valuable automaker to
sign the Fair Election Principles.
Employees said the right to organize a union is a fundamental
civil right and the principles would prevent Tesla from
threatening or retaliating against workers for organizing a
union.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for
comment.
(Reporting by Samrhitha Arunasalam and Akash Sriram in Bengaluru;
Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)
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