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Mother Muckraker

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14. Tesla Factory Worker Wages
Sat May 17, 2014, 12:12 PM
May 2014

No one in management and engineering makes less than $90k. The rest of the workers on the production line putting together the car make a lot less. The starting pay is rumored to be around $14/hr. When the factory was NUMMI, workers made $28/hr with COLA, health, 401k, pension, dental, etc.. We had a collective bargaining agreement.

After NUMMI ended, Tesla hired back many former Group Leaders from NUMMI to keep out the vast majority of production workers. The Group Leaders knew who were "trouble makers" which pretty much included most people. The union busting operation is centered around immediate supervisors because they know the workers best.

Union busting at Tesla is not run by outside consultants like most union busters. It's headed by the Director of Tesla HR, Steven Cooper who specializes in "union avoidance". Check out his "specialties". It includes "union busting" as well as an array of euphemisms which all revolve around union busting.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenmcooper1

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