TeslaThe CEO Elon MuskHe challenged the United Auto Workers and demanded that they organize workers at the Fremont plant of his company.

Musk took aim at the union this week in a series of tweets. This is a subject he has become more vocal about than ever before. President Joe BidenHe was a strong supporter of organized labor and took office.

Bay Area is experiencing negative unemployment. We must treat our people fairly and provide compensation. Otherwise, the Bay Area will have many options and they’ll just go away. Musk tweeted late Wednesday. Musk tweeted late Wednesday. Tesla will do nothing to stop them.”

The California Employment Development Department website states that Fremont’s unemployment rate was 3.1% as of December 2021. This is the latest available information.

Musk’s criticism of the union is not new. Musk made remarks in 2018 that were later found to be racist. violated federal labor lawsTesla had dismissed a union activist.

Tesla was ordered by the National Labor Relations Board to rehire its employee and have Musk remove the tweet. Tesla, however, appealed the decision by an administrative court.

Musk’s tweets on Tuesday evening, as Biden presented his State of the Union speech, continued the thread. Biden applauded the speeches. General MotorsAnd FordTheir plans to invest more in electric vehicle production in the U.S.

Musk responded by telling his 76 million-plus followers that “Tesla has created over 50,000 US jobs building electric vehicles & is investing more than double GM + Ford combined.”

GM stated that it anticipates an annual capital investment of $9 billion to $10 billion. This is largely to support the switch to electric vehicles. Ford, however, plans to invest $5 billion in its EV initiatives this year. Tesla stated that it will spend between $5 billion and $7 billion on its global projects this year.

Biden has caused Musk to be particularly disturbed in recent times. Musk criticized the Build Back Better plan by the Obama administration, which offers incentives to U.S. customers to purchase electric cars, and larger ones for those who buy union-made vehicles. He’s not alone. taken on BidenHe was reluctant to refer to Tesla as a manufacturer alongside U.S. automobile manufacturers. However, he eventually did. last month.

One of Musk’s tweets this week included a YouTube video that he says “helps explain why former UAW members who work at Tesla are not huge fans of UAW.” It was posted by World Socialist Web Site’s YouTube channel in 2010.

In the video, workers at the NUMMI plant, which would later become Tesla’s first electric vehicle factory, are seen complaining that a union member was prevented from recording a UAW meeting in the local union hall.

Musk is not the UAW’s sole critic. As part of an agreement between the UAW (the government) and Detroit, the union’s Detroit headquarters is subject to federal supervision through a court approved monitor. corruption probeThat sent 15 people into prison. This included two UAW presidents recently and three Fiat Chrysler executives.

Investigative work revealed years of corruption and kickback schemes that involved several union heads.

Brian Rothenberg (a UAW spokesperson) declined to comment on Musk’s tweets. However, he noted that Tesla appealed the NLRB ruling, asking for the company to “comply basic organizing rights.”

A small number of UAW members are employed in the organizing office located near Fremont.

Rothenberg would not discuss the union organizing efforts of Tesla or any other EV company, citing union policy to refrain from discussing activities until petitions are filed.

Tesla has not responded to requests for comment.

UAW faces a major challenge in the burgeoning EV marketplace. A 2018 UAW study found that Detroit carmakers switching to electric might cost them tens or thousands of jobs. The parts required for electric vehicles are far less than the ones made from internal combustion engines. Many parts of these parts are also made in the U.S.

While unions struggle to keep members, President Biden urges Congress to pass legislation protecting workers’ rights. Biden has proposed that the Pro ActThe law provides for the punishment of employers who engage in wage theft, illegal union opposition and misclassification.

Biden spoke Tuesday in an address that stated, “When the majority of workers wish to form a Union, they should not be stopped.”

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