UAW hopes to unionize Tesla Fremont plant

Tesla has a domestic manufacturing plant without a union, comfortably uncommon for an American automaker. Tesla states that it takes great care of its employees at its Fremont center, in spite of the lack of employee defenses that feature unionizing. However this lack of a union in Fremont might not always hold true. Dennis Williams, the president of the United Auto Workers (UAW), stated the other day that the UAW remains interested in unionizing at Tesla.

Williams stated the UAW is seeing Tesla extremely carefully, however not in an aggressive way. “We just think employees should have a voice in the workplace, and they ought to have collective bargaining rights,” he stated.

The UAW has actually had an interest in getting unionized employees into Fremont for several years, even prior to the Model S went into production. With the automaker’s just recently announced faster production schedule of 500,000 vehicles a year in 2018, and the indicated labor force development that will feature that, the variety of factors for the UAW to get interested simply got a lot larger.

Last year, Tesla purchased the former UAW hall near the Fremont factory. Tesla refused to comment on this.