Elon Musk says letting workers unionize creates 'lords and peasants'. What? | Steven Greenhouse

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : "While he's getting extremely wealthy off the backs of his workers and he's building rocket ships to fly his ass into outer space, workers continue to scrape to get by.
61% : Back in 2018, Musk, issuing a threat from on high, tweeted out a warning to workers at Tesla's plant in Fremont, California, that they would lose stock options if they unionized.
59% : He said: "If Tesla gets unionized, it will be because we deserved it and because we failed in some way."If you pay your workers 30% less than UAW members, insult your workers, fire workers for merely criticizing you, seek to suppress workers from exercising their federally guaranteed right to discuss pay and working conditions, there's no denying, that you definitely "failed in some way".Mr Musk, many of your workers want a better deal from you, the world's richest person.
57% : Musk is allergic to the idea of letting workers and their union have a voice in how to run - and improve - things.
57% : Musk calls himself a free speech absolutist, but God forbid that workers exercise their free speech rights to criticize him.
57% : Musk's firing of workers for speaking out is a compelling reason to unionize.
57% : By refusing to bargain, Musk has shown contempt for Sweden's economic system, in which more than 90% of workers are covered by collective bargaining agreements negotiated between companies and unions.
54% : In case workers need any additional arguments for why labor unions are good for them, a powerful new argument comes from none other than Elon Musk.
53% : When you and other corporate executives treat workers like disposable pawns, that's what creates a lords and peasants thing.
44% : Musk's statement shows that he realizes that unions can be highly effective in harnessing the collective voice and power of workers, not just to limit the autonomy of power-hungry CEOs like him in managing their companies, but also to counter the capricious and often officious way he runs things.
44% : Last April, a judge ruled that Tesla broke the law by seeking to suppress workers at an Orlando service center from discussing pay and grievances about working conditions.
34% : Beyond Musk's threat that Tesla workers would lose stock options if they unionized, Musk's managers have at times violated labor law and acted illegally to beat back unionization.

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