US court orders Musk to delete 'threat' tweet against union members

 

US court orders Elon Musk to delete 'threat' tweet against Tesla union members

In 2018, the businessman tweeted that Tesla employees would lose stock options if they joined a union. The court considered the tweet an "illegal threat" and a violation of labor law and ordered the businessman to delete it

The US Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that the head of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, violated federal labor law by tweeting that Tesla employees would lose stock options if they joined a union. This is reported by Reuters concerning the court decision.

We are talking about a tweet in 2018, where the businessman wrote the following: “Nothing is stopping the Tesla team at our car factory from voting in the union. We could do it tomorrow if we wanted to. But why pay union dues and give up stock options for nothing?”

The court ruled that Musk's tweet constituted an "illegal threat" that could prevent citizens from unionizing. The businessman is instructed to delete the tweet.

Reuters notes that during the meeting, Musk's defense argued that the businessman's tweet was not a threat, but simply reflected the fact that the unions of other car companies do not receive stock options.

Earlier, Bloomberg reported that in the same proceedings, the court ruled that the dismissal of A Just Future at Tesla trade union activist Richard Ortiz in October 2017 was illegal. Then he was accused of allegedly posting screenshots of employee profiles on Tesla's internal platform on social networks. The dismissal was found to be a violation of current labor laws, and Tesla was ordered to reinstate Ortiz at work with the payment of all lost funds due to the dismissal.