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On 2017/04/21 10:05 PM, Richard Sprout via Marxism wrote:
http://capitalandmain.com/tesla-workers-file-charges-with-national-labor-board-as-battle-with-elon-musk-intensifies-0419
/"Workers at Tesla’s Fremont, California electric car factory have
//filed a unfair labor practice charge
<https://www.nlrb.gov/case/32-CA-197020>//with the National Labor
Relations Board (NLRB), accusing the company of //illegal surveillance,
coercion, intimidation
<http://capitalandmain.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NLRB-Charges.pdf>// and
prevention of worker communications. The employees, who have been
//attempting to organize
<http://capitalandmain.com/charge-time-electric-car-workers-accuse-tesla-of-low-pay-and-intimidation-0406>//the approximately
7,000 workers at the plant through the United Auto Workers, claim that
Tesla violated multiple sections of the National Labor Relations Act,
which protects the right to unionize."/
Ah, my apologies, I should have warned you about Musk and the traditions
he carries.
During the 1980s this lad was a victim of merciless bullying at a
Johannesburg school not far from where I write. Before apartheid ended,
the reproduction of racial patriarchy included social brutalities that
also victimised smart, sensitive white kids. The poor fellow ran off to
Canada.
http://www.biznews.com/undictated/2015/07/21/why-elon-musk-has-little-affection-for-the-brutal-land-where-he-grew-up/
But South Africa's exports - such as climate-cooking coal, blood-stained
platinum, silicosis-tinged coal and exploitation-saturated wine -
include two features that Elon Musk may well embody.
* First, we have the most corrupt capitalist class in the world (since
2014), according to PricewaterhouseCoopers:
http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/services/advisory/consulting/forensics/economic-crime-survey.html
* Second, given worsening patterns of super-exploitation here, we
continue to boast the most militant working class on earth (since
2012), according to the World Economic Forum:
http://reports.weforum.org/global-competitiveness-index/
Johannesburg and Cape Town capitalists like the Oppenheimers (Anglo
American, AngloGold Ashanti and De Beers) and Ruperts (Rembrandt), and
executives of South African Breweries, Gencor (BHP Billiton), Sasol, Old
Mutual, Liberty Life, Investec, Didata, MTN, etc etc are ravaging
workers, consumers and the environment all over the world. (Not content
with having the world's most extreme single point-source site of CO2
emissions at its gas/coal-to-oil plant in Secunda southeast of Joburg,
Sasol is now building a similar $15 billion refinery in Louisiana.)
Given Musk's background in white South Africa (a society that has never
owned up to profiting from a crime against humanity), no wonder he's
perfectly comfortable normalising Donald J Trump:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/09/investing/elon-musk-tesla-stock-donald-trump/
And Trump needs such enablers: /"In the weeks since Musk met with Trump,
the president has rolled back //fuel efficiency standards
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/15/car-pollution-carbon-emissions-obama-trump-epa>//for
vehicles, signed an executive order to undo Barack Obama’s //clean power
plan
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/28/trump-clean-power-plan-executive-order-coal-industry>//,
and //proposed a budget
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/16/trump-budget-cuts-climate-change-clean-up-programs-epa>//that
would gut the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate change,
pollution and energy efficiency programs."/
And no wonder he has also funded the US Senate's main climate
denialists: James Inhofe, Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell.
http://www.elondumptrump.com/campaign_contributions
Maybe a boycott/pressure campaign by a fellow capitalist will have some
impact:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/19/elon-dump-trump-climate-change-doug-derwin
and http://www.elondumptrump.com/
But the only durable campaign would be one fusing labour, social and
environmental values... so more power to the Tesla workers to stand up
and discipline this phony futurist.
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