Tesla wants to rule from its tweets

Tesla is dedicated to the National Labor Relations Council, but it is not about suppressing unions or poor working conditions. Actually, wait, that’s about it. But it’s also a tweet. All this and more The morning shift for April 5, 2021.

1st team: Elon’s tweets must remain No restrictions

It will always be interesting to see where a company digs into its heels. These are the issues that are important to this business. In the case of Tesla, Elon is free to tweet whatever he pleases, causing stock prices to slow, it’s a vital part of the operation. We know this because Tesla is willing to fight it Reuters reports:

The electric car maker filed a petition Friday in the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeal to review the NLRB’s decision and order issued March 25.

In the petition, Tesla asked the court to review the order and grant Tesla “any other relief the Court deems just and equitable.”

Last month, the NRLB ordered Tesla to direct Musk to remove the tweet and post a notice addressing the illegal tweet at all of its facilities across the country and include language that said, “We will appropriate measures to ensure that Musk complies with our directive “

To be fair, the tweet in question was not a Harambe joke or a Dogecoin impulse, but Elon claimed that Tesla had no need to union-bust, as you already have a very secure job, thank you very much!

2nd team: NHTSA is quite active for an organization that owes this whistleblower $ 13.7 million

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was able to put pressure on Hyundai and Kiato recoveries and a recent $ 210 million deal for the capture and fire of engines. The man responsible was a whistleblower, Kim Gwang-ho. Congress ordered NHTSA to establish a program to pay for its problems by 2015.

How many problems are we talking about here? It’s a good $ 13.7 million, like the Wall Street Journal details:

After making his concerns public, Kim lost his job, was sued by Hyundai for allegedly leaking trade secrets, and police searched his home outside of Seoul. Now, Mr Kim said he is not sure when or if he will be compensated for the role he says he played in an investigation that led to a record deal reached by NHTSA with the carmaker and sister company That Corp. last year for up to $ 210 million.

“I hope all these pains and all these difficult days will finally be rewarded,” Kim, 59, said in an interview through an interpreter.

Kim’s lawyers said they believed his payment would be at least $ 13.7 million, based on the formula set by law, and that potentially more companies would have to pay deferred penalties.

The program mandated by Congress has not yet been established and Kim has not yet been charged.

3rd gear: Italian application drivers that impact in the most Italian way possible

Italy may be the most recent battleground for the rights of application drivers, such as Financial Times explains in a new report. Although the current national labor crisis in the United States revolves around Amazon workers and drivers peeing in bottles, in Italy, tickets are accelerating, as detailed by the FT:

Last year, Daniele, an Amazon third-party distribution provider in Italy, noticed that hundreds of euros were deducted on transit tickets from his monthly salary of 1,600 euros. But far from being a sloppy driver, he claimed, his speeding and parking offenses had been necessitated by the company’s demanding schedule.

“We are being held hostage by an algorithm that calculates our daily routes and requires an average of 140 deliveries during an eight-hour shift,” he said during a strike in Castel San Giovanni last week over working conditions on Amazon . He stood in front of a sign that said, “We’re not people, not packages.”

Amazon Italia rejected the suggestion that the company’s algorithm put undue pressure on delivery providers, arguing that all of its employees are beneficiaries of national collective bargaining.

Still, Daniele, who declined to give his last name, insisted that workers are expected to deliver a package every three minutes. Of course, we speed up or park the van on the access roads, and then the company makes us pay the fines ”(…)

As much as I love the comedy of Italian app drivers demanding to cover speeding tickets as labor expense, they do have a point. Application drivers work for their applications, work as employees, make money for their applications as employees do, but are not given the same benefits as employees.

4th March: Ford Execs still have pandemic bonds

I’m not here to judge if any Ford executive deserves a bonus after struggling to throw a handful of cars through the pandemic. I’m here to tell you how much more they do, through Automotive news:

The top executives of Ford Motor Co. achieved less than a quarter of their performance targets by 2020, below 54% the previous year, but the car’s compensation committee changed the bonus criteria on the fly to reward some leaders for its response to the pandemic.

Jim Hackett, who retired as CEO as of Oct. 1, received the largest pandemic bonus: $ 1.26 million. His successor, Jim Farley, received $ 685,330. Executive Chairman Bill Ford, among his accomplishments mentioned in the presentation of company representatives, was named industry leader of the year by Automotive news – He received an additional $ 405,000.

5th gear: BMW, Volvo and others oppose high-altitude mining

I don’t know if undermining the seabed is the biggest possible problem the world is currently facing, but it does scare me. Several companies, including BMW and Volvo, also oppose it, such as the BBC reports:

For years, only environmental groups opposed the idea of ​​unearthing metals from the depths of the sea, but now BMW, Volvo, Google and Samsung are giving weight to the demands for a moratorium on proposals. behind the high-altitude mining plans, which say the practice is more sustainable in the ocean than on land. The concept, first envisioned in the 1960s, is extract billions of potato-sized rocks called nodules of the abyssal plains of the oceans several miles deep. These nodules, rich in valuable minerals, have long been appreciated as the source of a new type of gold rush that could supply the world economy for centuries.

Reverse: I can’t imagine what that was like