The only gigafactoría that Tesla has in Europe is going through a deep labor conflict that has unions and directive of the unions and directive of the Tesla Factory in Berlin.
The company doubts the Veracity of the casualties due to employee disease and the wick of a conflict has been ignited in which payrolls are being blocked and demanding from salaries already subscribed.
3,000 employees asking for labor improvements. Reuters He informed that 3,086 workers of the Tesla plant in Grünheide had signed A claim of the IG Metall union in which better working conditions were required. The signatories suppose more than a quarter of the entire workforce of the German plant, asking More restbetter staffing and the end of harassment that employees are suffering from the management of the factory.
The union indicates in its statement the urgency of applying these claims: “The vote of the workers is clear and unequivocal: the address must introduce without delay the brief pauses paid, such as the norm in various ways in all other automotive plants. Often, there is not even time in the assembly line to take something or go to the bathroom,” IG Mall said next to their claims.
Tesla denies the discomfort of the template. According to Financial Timesa union survey among Tesla employees in Germany assured that more than 91% of employees had suffered some kind of physical injury or problems As a direct result of his work, the most frequent back pain being. In contrast, Reuters said that Tesla had conducted her own survey between 7,500 of the 11,000 factory employees in which 80% claimed to be satisfied with her work.
Dirk Schulze, regional director of IG Malll, said through A statement Extended by the union, that the petition was a sign that the employees were “defending their demands of better working conditions” and challenged the “disinformation of management”, in clear allusion to some satisfaction results under suspicion of being rigged.
Labor absenteeism: the elephant in the room. In the background of claims and the satisfaction of the working conditions are the high loss of the disease that has been registering German gigafactoría for months. Tesla employees have been denouncing the Directive harassment of the factory.
According to published the German newspaper Handelsblattthis pressure now has been done Extensive doctors They have signed their casualties. The company would have urged its employees to reveal the diagnosis of “any certified disability to work” and to free doctors who deal with their confidentiality duty.
You do not work, there is no salary. The union He has denounced that Tesla is holding the salary of some workers who are discharged, generating a great concern between the template. “With this unacceptable attitude, the company is leading colleagues again and again,” said Dirk Schulze.
From the union they ensure that some employees have received letters in which they are required to return part of the wages already perceived by referring to alleged “debts” or “overpagos” that do not correspond to them. “I demand the direction of the Grünheide plant that ends this practice immediately. The intimidation, totally unacceptable, to the companions must cease,” Schulze wrote in his statement.
Musk’s anti -unionism. It is no secret that Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has a marked RESTICENCE TO UNIONS. Its anti -union posture is a key factor in the work problem that is lived in German gigafactoría. In fact, the Financial Times stands out A peculiarity in the functioning of the Tesla factory in Germany: its company committee is led by a personnel member not affiliated with a union, an anomaly in the German automotive industry.
Elon Musk has been contrary to the presence of unions in their companies in the US. The employees of their factories denounced that they had been dismissed as retaliation for his attempt to union at the plant that the manufacturer has in Buffalo (New York).
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