The live stream on X with former President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk has more problems, and this time it's not just technical.
The United Auto Workers union filed federal labor charges against Trump and Musk that they claim two men attempted to “threaten and intimidate” workers on the X Spaces live stream who wanted to participate in “protected concerted activities, such as a strike.”
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During the call, which the UAW called “messy, disorganized” and “illegal,” Trump advocated firing striking workers.
“I look at what you do, you come in, you say, 'You want to quit?' They go on strike,” Trump told Musk. via live broadcast. “I won't mention the name of the company, but they go on strike and you say, it's not right, you've all left.”
The UAW noted in its lawsuit that under U.S. federal law, employees cannot be fired just because they are on strike, and that an employer who threatens to let them go because of that reason is violating workers' rights. under the National Labor Relations Act.
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“Both Trump and Musk want working class people to sit down and shut up, and they're openly laughing about it,” said UAW President Shawn Fain. a release for the organization. “It's disgusting, illegal and completely predictable from these two clowns.”
In 2022, after Musk took over Twitter (now X), he began mass layoffsletting go thousands of employees and senior executives after his purchase of the company. In May, Musk fired the entire Tesla Supercharger team after one executive tried to oppose more layoffs.
The UAW, which is based in Michigan, currently represents over 40,000 auto workers and officially approved Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris earlier this month.
Trump and Musk have yet to comment on the allegations.