I've often wondered what the UAW's plan for unionizing Tesla might consist of and how they were going to organize Tesla employees to vote for union representation.
Well I think I have stumbled across the answer here:
By having contracts with all the Big Three automakers expire on May Day, 2028, the UAW president also issued a challenge to the labor movement. Will his union be ready to meet it?
www.thenation.com
"This daily organizing work is unflashy—but absolutely essential. Too many past organizing campaigns—not just the UAW’s failed attempts, but efforts by other unions in myriad industries—have faltered when organizers took organizing shortcuts, fell back on gimmicks, or underestimated the scale of employer resistance. They tried to “sell” workers on the union, rather than challenge workers to step up and make the union their own. They soft-pedaled the fight against the boss, rather than describing a power struggle between workers and management.
To withstand the tornado of the full-blown anti-union campaign,
organizers must place the power struggle front-and-center in conversations, and they must build a union structure inside the workplace that can withstand the hostile winds. That means recruiting respected workers on every shift, in every work area and department, to serve on the plant VOC so they can educate, unite, bolster, and move a majority of coworkers into action."
So basically there has to be one or more Tesla employee(s) who are the
union organizers within a Tesla Giga factory.
I know Fremont and Giga New York has union organizers but haven't heard much about Giga Nevada or Giga Texas having a union representation drive.
