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Not at all convinced. It takes a lot of work to organize a workplace, and a lot of people are skeptical of unions—for some good reasons, and some bad ones. I d

• bpodgursky 5y ago
  > If this makes it cheap enough, Tesla will likely use union labor How else could this be accomplished?
  • GavinMcG 5y ago
    They can invite workers to unionize and facilitate that with education, obviously. They could even share some of that $15,000 tax credit directly with workers! Or maybe I'm wrong, and Tesla is just going to have to reap what it sowed in violating long-established worker rights. That's another way a tax incentive could work: by translating into market rewards. That doesn't make it exclusive.
    • bpodgursky 5y ago
      You can cut this however you want with pretty semantics, but your argument is predicated on not giving the workers the right to choose whether to unionize. If they choose no, Tesla has no option but to replace them. You want to "educate" workers in order to help them make the right choice... you are not coming at this from a position where you actually respect the rights of workers to make a choice.
      • GavinMcG 5y ago
        Of course they have an option! They can follow the law, not fire their workers for making their own choices about (non)representation, and just not get the tax credit. Saying that Tesla would be forced to do anything here is absurd. I'm not the one making an "argument predicated on not giving the workers the right to choose."