Tesla Factory Announces Union Bid, Testing Elon Musk’s Very Public Contempt of Unions

Tesla employees in Buffalo, New York, announced their intentions to form a union on Tuesday, as first reported by Bloomberg. If the drive is successful, it would be the first union formed at the company, and would put a major spotlight on Elon Musk, who has been scrutinized for his management practices and aggressively resisted past unionization efforts. “We believe unionizing will give us a voice in our workplace that we feel has been ignored to this point,” Tesla Workers United wrote in a statement, and announced its plans to...