Lots of Dems Love Elon Musk...but, does he use Union Workers to Build his Tesla Cars?

[Mother Muckraker]

26. The union buster Tesla hired is Steven Cooper

http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenmcooper1

"I am a strategic planner who has led Human Resources and Legal departments through periods of rapid growth and change. Senior executives view me as a valued business partner due to my ability to develop trusting relationships, understand business's long-term objectives, and willingness to propose workable solutions to complex problems. I have initiated programs that allow leaders to assess flight risk of needed talent and the requisite steps to prevent. I have reduced enterprise risk by proactively conducting wage and hour audits, developing a centralized HR compliance program, drafting and updating policies and procedures, and training managers on employment law. I am a coach and mentor to leaders and others within Human Resources.

Specialties

Labor and employment law
Employee and Labor Relations
Talent Management
HR Compliance
Union Avoidance
Workplace Investigations
Leadership and Messaging
Coaching and Training
Risk Management
Department Development
Problem Solver"

That list of "specialities" is the union buster's line of expertise. In this case, he explicitly writes "Union Avoidance".

"Training managers on employment law" is the backbone of a union avoidance campaign. The union buster will train the Production Supervisors who are the rank and file's immediate manager whom they interact with daily.

As former NUMMI managers, they know which NUMMI employees to exclude from employment. Also, the managers are specially selected. Only the ones who are the most anti-union will be hired.

Tesla only hired 20-25 Ex-NUMMI workers and most of them were management.

This is also how NUMMI was union busted before Tesla moved in. The "in-house union buster" as head of HR recruited several people and installed a guy in the UAW. That guy, Juan Castillo wrote a faux rank n file newsletter which spread all of Toyota's lie to the rank and file. The biggest lie being that the closing of NUMMI was GM's fault. Then, Juan helped organize and provoke a "riot" that was spread all over the internet on right-wing union busting sites like laborunionreport and thetruthaboutcars. Then, the lie was further spread among the "left" with an ostensibly pro-labor activist who promoted Juan Castillo and even got him and another of his anti-union crew on PBS.