Elon Musk’s Tesla has been sued for “widespread racism” at the factory

According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, workers at a Tesla factory in California have faced racial slurs and hostility since 2015.
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247 – Today, Thursday (28), a US federal agency filed a lawsuit against Tesla, the company headed by Elon Musk. The lawsuit alleges that Tesla allowed an environment of “pervasive racism” at its Silicon Valley factory and took retaliatory action against black employees who reported such abusive behaviors, the newspaper reported. the world.

According to the lawsuit filed in federal court by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, workers at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, have regularly faced racial slurs and hostility since 2015. “Shifts, departments and positions,” the body denounced.

According to the lawsuit, there was racist graffiti at the plant, along with swastika symbols and threats. “The insults occurred casually and publicly in high-traffic areas and job centres.”

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The lawsuit highlights that the abuse was witnessed by Tesla supervisors and executives, but there was no intervention on their part, and the company took no action in response to the behavior. Tesla did not respond to the call made by Agence France-Presse.

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