Elon Musk has made it clear time and time again that he is not a fan of unions, often citing their supposed uselessness in Tesla factories’ wondrous, egalitarian, totally fine work environments. In fact, he’s so confident of his workers’ fealty to their Technoking that he issued a challenge to the United Auto Workers (UAW) last night while tweeting with Gene Simmons: “I’d like hereby to invite UAW to hold a union vote at their convenience. Tesla will do nothing to stop them,” he proclaimed around midnight.
This would be a marked change in strategy for Musk, who once sent out an ominous, anti-union tweet that the National Labor Relations Board eventually demanded he delete on the grounds that it might come across as a threat. A spokesperson for the UAW refused to comment on Musk’s latest Kiss-instigated labor challenge, but instead referred us to Tesla and its Technoking’s current appeal of an NLRB order to allow organizing at the Fremont plant.
