https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-25/black-tesl… A single mother was excited to land a job at Tesla. About three years in, she was fired, she said, after complaining that Black workers were frequently called the N-word on the assembly line.
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An Army veteran was promoted to a fleet manager job. He said he was fired after he complained that his boss called him and two Black co-workers “monkeys.”
In interviews with The Times, three Black former employees described how jobs at the pioneering automaker devolved into personal nightmares due to a pattern of rampant racism and harassment at Tesla’s Fremont, Calif., factory.
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First, if any of this sort of thing is true, Tesla had better fix it.
Second, Russ Mitchell at the LA Times has a long history of making up lies about Tesla. He contributes to short sellers and solicits libel. Pretty much anything he writes about Tesla, there’s no reason to believe.
This post is political and to add injury to insult it harms our ability to profit from our investments, a primary goal of this Investing and Economics board.
So we should ignore racism and bigotry as long as there’s profit to be made from it?
Not an American, that is, not a Yankee/Gringo. A South American Venezuelan by choice and a German by birth now living in Portugal a country, like Venezuela, that has outgrown racism.
I firmly believe that ambulance chasing lawyers are a large part of America’s racial problem.
Second, Russ Mitchell at the LA Times has a long history of making up lies about Tesla. He contributes to short sellers and solicits libel. Pretty much anything he writes about Tesla, there’s no reason to believe.
I went do the Rambus hole two decades ago with the “they have xyz motives, that is a lie” stuff. Use far more salt when any of those claims come up. It has nothing to do with motives, payoffs, or lies. It has to do with getting it right or wrong. That goes for any reporter and for Tesla. I will add that goes for any rag as well, and the LA Times is not a rag.
I lived in LA for over a decade, before the Web. I read the LA Times regularly. Even back then it was a pathetic rag. At least to those of use who believe that papers should report news, rather than mostly sports and other entertainment. It was a shock, having grown up reading the NY Times every day, to move to LA and discover what passed for a newspaper there. And it was the best of the lot, locally.
Newspapers have just gone downhill since then. That goes especially for the NYT as well.
I make no judgment on the LA Times today, specifically, as I no longer read it. But I do follow Tesla news, and I do keep track of what BS Russ Mitchell is spewing. Whatever the motive, it’s a pack of lies. Has been for years and continues to be.
And this is way beyond the usual situation where, whenever the major media news is reporting on something you actually know about, you realize their reporting is riddled with inaccuracies. We’re not talking about inaccuracies, it’s just a consistent and egregious slant in one direction away from truth.
I’ll say again though, if any of this racism stuff is true then Tesla needs to fix it ASAP. Does anybody have any context for this? How prevalent are these sorts of complaints in the automotive manufacturing business? Is this situation at Tesla, if true, unusual?
It might be unusual simply because being non-union in that sector is unusual. ---------------------------- Aren’t most (all?) BMW, Toyota, Honda and Nissan plants in the US non-union? Maybe there are others too.
Yes, most plants of those brands mentioned are non-union, and are based in the South. I have no knowledge of the company culture in those plants, as to employee treatment, in this regard. I know one white guy who works for BMW in So. Carolina, and he loves it. Non-union plant; he’s a supervisor at some level or other. And he always has a new Mini Cooper to drive for a $200 monthly lease. (Mini is a BMW brand.)
But I would also bet there would be more trouble resulting from racist comments made at a union shop in Detroit.
