Tesla says allegations of union firings in Buffalo are ‘false’

Tesla says latest firings at its Buffalo, New York factory resulted from efficiency critiques and never from worker unionizing efforts.

In a weblog publish, Tesla says worker critiques happen each six months in any respect of its areas worldwide. “If an worker fails to satisfy their efficiency expectations, they are going to be let go,” the publish says. Firings for the latest worker critiques started the week of February twelfth. Workers introduced their efforts to unionize on February 14th.

Roughly 4 % of the workers a part of the Buffalo Autopilot labelling group misplaced their jobs primarily based on the latest evaluate course of. Tesla says it recognized the workers on February third, greater than per week earlier than unionizing efforts have been introduced.

“The workers let go as a part of this course of obtained prior suggestions on their poor efficiency from their managers over the course of the evaluate interval,” the weblog publish says. “Regardless of suggestions, they didn’t exhibit ample enchancment.”

The corporate additionally addressed allegations that some workers face fixed strain that makes them really feel like they will’t use the toilet, particularly pointing to its picture labelling course of. Tesla mentioned it’s time monitored to enhance labelling software program.

“Since its goal is to calculate how lengthy it takes to label a picture, there may be nothing to be gained by delaying toilet breaks. The declare that Tesla pressures workers to take action is categorically false.”

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