1/ @elonmusk on @60Minutes dismissed reports of unsafe conditions & unreported injuries at Tesla by blaming a union campaign & calling it “utter nonsense.”
Our investigations had nothing to do with the union. Why not just acknowledge & fix the problems?
Our investigations had nothing to do with the union. Why not just acknowledge & fix the problems?
2/ What’s striking is the disconnect between Elon’s claims and the reality.
Sure, there's been a union drive at Tesla, but we have no connection to it.
Our series: revealnews.org/topic/insult-t…
Sure, there's been a union drive at Tesla, but we have no connection to it.
Our series: revealnews.org/topic/insult-t…
3/ Our investigations are backed by medical records & Tesla documents that we got independently.
Key sources are medical & safety professionals who had no involvement with the union, which is trying to organize production workers.
Key sources are medical & safety professionals who had no involvement with the union, which is trying to organize production workers.
4/ Like Justine White, a Tesla safety lead who wrote Elon’s office to say she couldn’t sleep at night because of the safety problems there. (She didn’t get a response and quit disillusioned.) 
5/ Or like Anna Watson, a physician assistant who says Tesla’s health clinic doesn’t give injured workers proper medical care: “The goal of the clinic was to keep as many patients off of the books as possible.”
7/ Was it the part about breathing toxic fumes?
Here’s a diagnosis of a Tesla worker by a Tesla-approved clinic. (By the way, Tesla failed to record this injury as required by law)
Here’s a diagnosis of a Tesla worker by a Tesla-approved clinic. (By the way, Tesla failed to record this injury as required by law)
8/ Was it repetitive stress injuries? (Tesla also failed to record Tracy Lee's injury)
9/ Was it the bit about 100+ ambulance calls?
10/ Or was it the part about investigations by CA regulators? Cal/OSHA has several ongoing now (in italics here) and has cited Tesla for more than 40 violations since 2013
11/ Tesla defenders will repeat the company line that Cal/OSHA recently investigated and found nothing. That’s just incorrect.
This is from a Cal/OSHA spokeswoman, explaining that they found several violations (though the penalty is minuscule)
This is from a Cal/OSHA spokeswoman, explaining that they found several violations (though the penalty is minuscule)
12/ Elon says that if there were toxic fumes in his factory, he would be breathing them.
What about Tarik Logan? He went through 100+ tubes of toxic adhesive a day. He got debilitating headaches that landed him in the hospital. Here are some texts he sent his mom.
What about Tarik Logan? He went through 100+ tubes of toxic adhesive a day. He got debilitating headaches that landed him in the hospital. Here are some texts he sent his mom.
13/ Or Dennis Cruz, who still struggles with the health effects of breathing fumes from burning chemicals on the production line.
Hear him on Reveal: revealnews.org/episodes/tesla…
Hear him on Reveal: revealnews.org/episodes/tesla…
14/ Or what about the woman who passed out on the factory floor because of fumes, but whose injury was not counted.
15/ Tesla could be owning up to the problems and fixing them. Instead, its strategy has been to deny everything.
Was this all drummed up by a union? Now that’s “utter nonsense.”
Was this all drummed up by a union? Now that’s “utter nonsense.”
