Musk broke US labour laws

@ 2023/04/05
Threatening unionising workers by tweet is apparently illegal

A federal appeals court has ruled supreme twit Elon [look at me] Musk broke US labour laws by tweeting that Tesla workers would lose stock trading options if they joined a union.

The Fifth Circuit US Court of Appeals looked at the 2018 tweet Musk wrote after a Twitter user pressed him on what he thought of unions amid an organising campaign by the United Auto Workers at Tesla’s Fremont, California plant.

In 2021, the National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) found Musk had violated federal labour laws because of the tweet, which the appeals court upheld on Friday.

The court ordered the removal of the tweet, but so far Musk has been too busy. It reads:

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