@SenSherrodBrown A billionaire who has been found guilty of illegal union-busting by @NLRB should p

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No probably about it--Of course he should NOT have been named person of the year. !




@SenSherrodBrown
A billionaire who has been found guilty of illegal union-busting by @NLRB
should probably not be @TIME's Person of the Year.

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Tesla factory workers reveal pain, injury and stress: 'Everything feels like the future but us'
The Tesla CEO has been celebrated for his ambition, but workers say there is a human cost to his bold agenda for growth.
The Tesla CEO has been celebrated for his ambition, but workers say there is a human cost to his bold agenda for growth. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

Exclusive: CEO Elon Musk defends workplace, saying ‘[we are not] just greedy capitalists who skimp on safety’ – and declares his $50bn company overvalued
Julia Carrie Wong
Julia Carrie Wong in Fremont, California
@juliacarriew
Thu 18 May 2017 03.00 EDT

Last modified on Wed 7 Feb 2018 04.23 EST

When Tesla bought a decommissioned car factory in Fremont, California, Elon Musk transformed the old-fashioned, unionized plant into a much-vaunted “factory of the future”, where giant robots named after X-Men shape and fold sheets of metal inside a gleaming white mecca of advanced manufacturing.

The appetite for Musk’s electric cars, and his promise to disrupt the carbon-reliant automobile industry, has helped Tesla’s value exceed that of both Ford and, briefly, General Motors (GM). But some of the human workers who share the factory with their robotic counterparts complain of grueling pressure – which they attribute to Musk’s aggressive production goals – and sometimes life-changing injuries.


Ambulances have been called more than 100 times since 2014 for workers experiencing fainting spells, dizziness, seizures, abnormal breathing and chest pains, according to incident reports obtained by the Guardian. Hundreds more were called for injuries and other medical issues.

In a phone interview about the conditions at the factory, which employs about 10,000 workers, the Tesla CEO conceded his workers had been “having a hard time, working long hours, and on hard jobs”, but said he cared deeply about their health and wellbeing. His company says its factory safety record has significantly improved over the last year.

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[Mary in S. Carolina]

1. The new owner of Time is a billionaire.

We need to get used to every cover being a billionaire. Since money is all these people know, what are the odds that Elen Musk bought his way onto the cover of Time. We really need unbiased news sources.