Behind Tesla’s rise, part 2: Former Tesla worker speaks out on grueling, unsafe working conditions
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World Socialist Web Site recently spoke at length with a former Tesla worker who has documented the deeply exploitative and highly unsafe working conditions from his time at the company’s flagship production facility in Fremont, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have changed the worker’s name to Howard in this article to protect his identity.
At the end of 2016, Howard began his new job at Tesla in the metal finishing department of the Fremont plant, optimistic at having secured a position at the much-celebrated company. Over the next three years he would experience relentlessly long hours and callous indifference to worker safety and management harassment, culminating in his termination in 2019 after getting injured on the job.
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