<story><title>Tesla factory worker calls for a union: “We need to stand up for ourselves”</title><url>https://medium.com/@moran2017j/time-for-tesla-to-listen-ab5c6259fc88</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xmonkee</author><text>Tesla&amp;#x27;s entire marketing message is about how they are saving the planet. It&amp;#x27;s really ironic then how many times I&amp;#x27;ve heard about the terrible working conditions at their factories. One cannot really trust a message about saving the planet when you don&amp;#x27;t care about the people who need the saving.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>It would be sensible to sacrifice the well-being of a small group in order to save the whole, if it&amp;#x27;s necessary to do so. I don&amp;#x27;t think your inference makes any sense. Poor working conditions for one factory and saving the planet as a whole are different concerns.&lt;p&gt;That said, I would certainly like to see them improve in this area. I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of Tesla, but they are not without their flaws, and working conditions appear to be one of them. They should do better. Not because it somehow conflicts with their mission, but just because it&amp;#x27;s the right thing to do.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tesla factory worker calls for a union: “We need to stand up for ourselves”</title><url>https://medium.com/@moran2017j/time-for-tesla-to-listen-ab5c6259fc88</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xmonkee</author><text>Tesla&amp;#x27;s entire marketing message is about how they are saving the planet. It&amp;#x27;s really ironic then how many times I&amp;#x27;ve heard about the terrible working conditions at their factories. One cannot really trust a message about saving the planet when you don&amp;#x27;t care about the people who need the saving.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trome</author><text>Yeah, Tesla is here to make money above all else, and they&amp;#x27;re gonna do as much time theft as they can, likely putting Amazon, Walmart &amp;amp; McDonalds to shame.&lt;p&gt;Shit must be real bad over there if they are attempting to unionize, if you notice the only places that still have a union in the US in spite of union busting are where the employer has made it an absolute living nightmare to work, hence the union to back the workers up.</text></comment>