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If only Elon believed in what he says: "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" and dared them to a vote given his past comments [1]. 1. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/3/2295959

If only Elon believed in what he says: "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" and dared them to a vote given his past comments [1]. 1. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/3/22959592/elon-musk-tesla-union-challenges-uaw-california-factory-vote https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/3/22959592/elon-musk-tesla-u...

PartiallyTyped 4y ago
It’s pretty obvious that Elon does not respect votes as he hasn’t stepped down, and is preoccupied with his tweets’ popularity or better the lack thereof.
- whateveracct 4y ago
  > i will abide by the results of this poll
- CharlesW 4y ago
  > …is preoccupied with his tweets’ popularity or better the lack thereof. To a pathological degree, ICYMI. https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-super-bowl-joe-biden-tweet https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-super-bowl-joe-biden-... "…Musk's cousin, James, sent an internal message on Slack to Twitter's engineers at 2:26AM on Monday morning concerning a "high urgency" situation. The emergency was that Biden's post performed better than Musk's. Around 80 Twitter engineers were brought in to work on the issue. By Monday afternoon, a fix was implemented to the algorithm that allowed Musk's tweets – and only Musk's tweets – to "bypass Twitter’s filters," which in turn "artificially boosted Musk’s tweets by a factor of 1,000," promoting Musk's content in everyone's feed."
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Tuna-Fish 4y ago
It pays to pay attention to the specific wording of his post. He really doesn't want his workers to unionize, and the reason he dared UAW to hold the vote is because he knows that because of historical reasons UAW is really unpopular in Fremont. In short, Fremont used to be a GM plant and have their own union. When this union was absorbed into UAW, it was fairly contentious and many in Fremont believed that UAW didn't care about auto workers in California. Then very shortly after, UAW negotiated with GM about downsizing, and the end result was that the Fremont plant was shut down. This was seen in Fremont as a total betrayal. Soon after, Tesla bought the plant. So UAW really isn't liked, and any vote about organizing under them would be a landslide against. A different union might be a lot more successful.
- dver 4y ago
  NUMMI was a union plant. UAW office was right across the street.
  - javawizard 4y ago
    Not sure I understand what you're saying - are you disagreeing with something the parent said?

PartiallyTyped 4y ago

It’s pretty obvious that Elon does not respect votes as he hasn’t stepped down, and is preoccupied with his tweets’ popularity or better the lack thereof.

whateveracct 4y ago
> i will abide by the results of this poll
CharlesW 4y ago
> …is preoccupied with his tweets’ popularity or better the lack thereof. To a pathological degree, ICYMI. https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-super-bowl-joe-biden-tweet https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-super-bowl-joe-biden-... "…Musk's cousin, James, sent an internal message on Slack to Twitter's engineers at 2:26AM on Monday morning concerning a "high urgency" situation. The emergency was that Biden's post performed better than Musk's. Around 80 Twitter engineers were brought in to work on the issue. By Monday afternoon, a fix was implemented to the algorithm that allowed Musk's tweets – and only Musk's tweets – to "bypass Twitter’s filters," which in turn "artificially boosted Musk’s tweets by a factor of 1,000," promoting Musk's content in everyone's feed."
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Tuna-Fish 4y ago

It pays to pay attention to the specific wording of his post. He really doesn't want his workers to unionize, and the reason he dared UAW to hold the vote is because he knows that because of historical reasons UAW is really unpopular in Fremont. In short, Fremont used to be a GM plant and have their own union. When this union was absorbed into UAW, it was fairly contentious and many in Fremont believed that UAW didn't care about auto workers in California. Then very shortly after, UAW negotiated with GM about downsizing, and the end result was that the Fremont plant was shut down. This was seen in Fremont as a total betrayal. Soon after, Tesla bought the plant. So UAW really isn't liked, and any vote about organizing under them would be a landslide against. A different union might be a lot more successful.

dver 4y ago
NUMMI was a union plant. UAW office was right across the street.
- javawizard 4y ago
  Not sure I understand what you're saying - are you disagreeing with something the parent said?