Reuters Legal reports
that “Tesla Inc. was hit with a racial discrimination lawsuit in California
state court accusing the electric car manufacturer of running a workplace so
hostile to black workers that it was reminiscent of the ‘Jim Crow era.’”
In a lawsuit filed on
Monday, three former workers claimed that coworkers and supervisors at Tesla's
factory in Fremont, California freely used racial epithets and drew racist
cartoons. They also alleged that they were punished for complaining about the
racially hostile work environment.
The workers also sued
three staffing firms that lease employees to Tesla.
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In my ongoing
research on racial slurs and disparagement of minority workers—including unequal
or made-up discipline against these workers— I am documenting a sharp upsurge,
starting in the mid-1990s and accelerating in the past ten years.
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