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"Working conditions at Tesla’s manufacturing plant in Fremont, California, have
allegedly gone from bad to worse, with sexual assaults aboard company shuttle
buses, drug and alcohol use onsite, all-out brawls breaking out between
employees and “prevalent” bigotry – including widespread use of the N-word, a
bombshell lawsuit reveals.
In a 159-page federal lawsuit filed Thursday and obtained first by
The
Independent, Ozell Murray, a former Fresno police officer in charge of
security at the 22,000-person factory, claims he and his team “routinely”
seized cocaine and fentanyl onsite, confiscated guns discovered in the
building, investigated “acts of sexual deviance” on Tesla grounds, and, at
regular intervals, “pulled employees off the manufacturing line and sent them
home for being alcohol-intoxicated and high on drugs.”
Those who reported the issues were fired over bogus charges or forced to
resign, according to Murray’s complaint, to which several of his ex-colleagues
signed on as co-defendants.
“Healthy profits have always been more important to the Company than a healthy
working environment,” the complaint alleges. “For Tesla, more bodies on the
manufacturing line meant more vehicles flying out the factory door – no matter
how unclean the hands were that were assembling those cars.”
Tesla’s Model Y, Model S, Model 3 and Model X lines are manufactured in
Fremont. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Tesla in 2023
over allegations of unbridled racism at its Fremont plant. This spring, Tesla
settled a lawsuit brought by a Black employee at the Fremont facility who
accused a manager of greeting her by saying, “Welcome to the plantation,” and,
“Welcome to the slave house.”
A Tesla spokesperson did not respond on Friday to a request for comment."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
