This is actually the same union that Starbucks workers are organizing with -- Workers United, which is an SEIU affiliate. I wonder if the Starbucks workers in Buffalo are helping this group of workers out.
Also, here's what their website says about whether they are anti-Tesla:
> No! We are pro-Tesla and pro-union. We want to work at Tesla and make it our career. We want Tesla to be the best it can be and a place where we can have successful and sustainable careers. If we didn't care about the company we wouldn't be putting this work into changing it for the better.
Company unions aren't permitted. But there's an element of this approach in the most recent approaches to undermining unions, where companies create groups for worker voices including ESG and DEI initiatives. I'm not saying companies doing this is necessarily bad, just being descriptive about that at least part of the motivation is to undermine union organizing, as even corporate lobbying groups describe it:
Isn’t that a contradiction? The union is for the workers, not the company - how could the company make a union? Doesn’t it have to be the workers who organize?
Once the union is established the model they're talking about gives the union a seat somewhere in the executive levels sometimes several on the board. It brings the union directly into the decision making process earlier so there's more chances to address things before they rise to the level of a strike. It could be used to co-opt the union but it doesn't inherently compromise it.
