The dismissals come at a crucial point for the company, which is pushing to increase vehicle production five-fold and reach a broader market with its new Model 3 sedan. The electric vehicle maker missed targets for producing the lower-cost sedan, manufacturing only 260 last quarter despite a wait list of more than 450,000 customers.
Tesla fires hundreds of employees
The lede might be buried on this:
“Tesla has faced ongoing discontent from some factory workers, who have complained about work conditions and wages below the auto industry average.
Tesla has a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board in November for charges that company supervisors and security guards harassed workers distributing union literature. Tesla denied the accusations.
Openly pro-union workers were among those fired this week. Some believe they were targeted.
The company denied union activities played a role in the dismissals.”
Tesla can’t manage anything right. Elon Musk is sometimes a charlatan.
but but but he is the next steve jobs and should become apple CEO! (sarcasm. fanboys love this guy)