Lawsuit Claiming Racism at Tesla Draws Almost 240 Black Workers Saying ‘Me Too’
- Class-action status would raise stakes for Musk’s car company
- Tesla has called 2017 lawsuit a ‘Hotbed of Misinformation’
Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California.
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A Black former assembly line staffer at Tesla Inc. is moving to add hundreds of other workers to his 2017 lawsuit in which he called the electric-car maker’s production floor a “hotbed for racist behavior.”
Marcus Vaughn says class-action status is appropriate to address Tesla’s failure to stop a “pattern and practice of race discrimination” and a hostile work environment at the factory in Fremont, California.