Tesla Unionizer Returns Fire After Elon Musk 'Trashes' Him
- Worker says he’s getting support from the United Auto Workers
- Musk calls post ‘morally outrageous’ in messages to Gizmodo
Tesla Motor Inc's factory in Fremont, California, on April 11, 2012.
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Jose Moran commutes more than an hour from California’s Central Valley to Tesla Inc.’s Fremont factory every morning for a shift that usually starts around 5:25 a.m. and ends in the late afternoon. His Thursday was anything but typical.
The 43-year-old father of two started the day passing around copies of his post on the publishing service Medium, which called for forming a union at Tesla’s lone auto assembly plant. By the evening, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk was criticizing Moran and the United Auto Workers in Twitter messages with a tech blog.