Tesla Is Ordered to Rehire Worker, Make Musk Delete Tweet
- Carmaker broke law in efforts to undermine union, NLRB rules
- Tweet from 2018 ‘unlawfully threatened’ retaliation on workers
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Tesla Inc. repeatedly violated U.S. labor law, including by firing a union activist, and must make Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk delete a threatening tweet from his account, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Thursday.
The ruling, issued by two Republican and one Democratic member of the agency, states that the electric-car maker must offer to reinstate the fired employee. The board members also ruled that Tesla broke the law by retaliating against another union activist, “coercively interrogating” union supporters and restricting employees from talking to reporters.