The US Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk violated federal labor law by posting on Twitter that Tesla employees would lose their stock options if they joined a union. It has been reported Reuters.
This is a tweet from a billionaire in 2018.
“There’s nothing stopping the Tesla team at our auto plant from voting in the union. We can do it tomorrow if we want. But why pay union dues and give up stock options for nothing?” Musk wrote at the time.
The court saw the broadcast as an “illegal threat” that could prevent Americans from organizing in unions. The businessman was instructed to delete the tweet.
According to Reuters, Musk’s lawyers stressed that the businessman’s posting was not a threat, just pointing out that other auto companies’ unions did not buy stock options.
At the same time, in February, Musk told the jury acquittal Following the mass complaint from Tesla investors about the billionaire’s public statements.