Musk Faces Reckoning Over Old Tweet in Labor Violation Dispute

One of Elon Musk’s freewheeling tweets from the past came back to haunt him as a three-judge panel questioned whether the Tesla Inc. chief threatened workers with the loss of stock options if they formed a union.

Tesla in March appealed an order by the National Labor Relations Board that Musk delete his May 2018 tweet that said: “Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues and give up stock options for nothing?”