Tesla employees at Gigafactory New York, located in Buffalo, are fed up with their treatment and have informed CEO Elon Musk that they are seeking to unionize. This is not the first time the automaker has faced unionization efforts, but they have mostly been focused at Tesla’s car factories, such as the Fremont Factory in California.
The Union of Auto Workers (UAW) has launched several unsuccessful efforts to unionize the most productive car factory in the US. CEO Elon Musk has pushed back hard against those efforts, and he was found to have gone too far by the National Labor Relations Board, which ordered Musk to delete a tweet in which he suggested that if Tesla employees unionized they would lose their stock options.
Now, workers at Gigafactory New York, where almost a thousand workers perform data annotation for Tesla’s Autopilot and self-driving efforts, have announced their intent to unionize. The employees sent an email to Musk early Tuesday with their intent to unionize, citing a need for better pay and job security, as well as a reduction in production pressures that they say have been harmful to their health.
The Tesla employees are being organized with the help of the Service Employees International Union affiliate Workers United, which is known for having unionized workers at hundreds of Starbucks stores. Al Celli, a member of the union’s organizing committee, said about the Tesla workers at Giga New York: “People are tired of being treated like robots.” He added that there is a “rush to get things done” that is not “well thought out.”
The data labelers also want higher pay and job security. They have a $19-an-hour starting pay. Tesla has been increasingly looking to automate Autopilot data labeling. While the organizers are starting with the data labelers, they say that they plan to also include about 1,000 manufacturing employees at the factory. Tesla produces Supercharger stations at the factory.
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