Building power for working people

Tag: Tesla

The Gory Truth Behind Elon Musk’s Texas Takeover

[Elon Musk entering stage in a cowboy hat, pumping fists, etc, launching the Gigafactory] [Elon Musk speaking on stage with the cowboy hat]: It wasn’t…

How Elon Musk Got Rich: The $230 Billion Myth

Produced and edited by Sean Morrow and Anthony Mascorro Elon Musk spent decades building something big: himself. Musk managed to sell the world on a…

Elon Musk’s Corporate Welfare Is On The Ballot In Austin, Texas

In 2021, officials in Travis County, Texas, secretly gave Tesla $60 million in tax breaks to set up a factory in Austin. The vote to…

Exclusive: Tesla Employee Speaks Out On Rampant Racism At The Company

A current Tesla employee is speaking out about the culture of racism and discrimination at Elon Musk's company. The individual, whose identity we agreed to…

Exclusive: Racist Slurs & Toxic Culture At Tesla

At Tesla, Marcus Vaughn was called racial slurs by his manager and saw a fellow Black co-worker beaten with a chair. After alerting human resources…

A Modern Day Sweatshop: The Tesla Factory Secrets Elon Musk Doesn’t Want You To Know

Dennis Duran was excited when he got a job at Tesla’s Fremont, California factory. He was looking forward to being part of a new company…

Fired By Elon Musk for Unionizing at Tesla

Beneath Tesla’s forward-thinking and world-saving rhetoric, Richard Ortiz found broken promises, brutal working conditions, and exploitative management practices. So he began organizing with his co-workers…