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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    291·
    3 months ago

    The article says that, unfortunately, they’re on kind of shaky ground here.

    The action came after Musk and Trump held a two-hour conversation on social media platform X on Monday night, during which Trump complimented Musk’s ability to cut costs by saying he would not tolerate workers going on strike.
    “You’re the greatest cutter,” Trump said during the conversation. “I mean, I look at what you do. You walk in, you just say: ‘You want to quit?’ They go on strike - I won’t mention the name of the company - but they go on strike. And you say: ‘That’s okay, you’re all gone.’” Musk chuckled but did not respond to Trump’s comments, making it harder for the NLRB to find him liable for making illegal threats to workers at his companies, said Wilma Liebman, chair of the NLRB under former President Barack Obama.
    Under federal law, workers cannot be fired for going on strike, and threatening to do so is illegal under the National Labor Relations Act, the UAW said in a statement.

    I totally agree that they violated that law in spirit, but I don’t know if the NLRB will go for it.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
      30·
      3 months ago

      It’s likely a maneuver to force media to pick this story up and surface what these two turds think about labor to more people.

      • Drunemeton@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        From the WSJ article covering this suit: “The UAW, which has endorsed Kamala Harris, the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democrats, has been eager to blunt the former president’s appeal to working-class voters by painting him as a friend of the wealthy.”

        So, yeah… 🤨

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          No shit he’s a friend of the wealthy. He keeps insisting he is wealthy himself, while threatening anyone that wants to actually verify that for decades. And dealing with fraud charges for various financial “irregularities”.