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SpaceX illegally fired workers who criticized Elon Musk, federal labor watchdog says

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Federal labor regulators allege that SpaceX illegally fired employees who publicly criticized Elon Musk, the exploration company's founder and CEO.

According to allegations laid out in a complaint filed Wednesday by a regional office of the National Labor Relations Board, SpaceX wrongfully terminated eight employees and interrogated dozens more in 2022 after the workers wrote and shared an open letter calling for the company's leadership to condemn Musk's "disparaging" and "sexually charged" comments on social media.

The letter criticized SpaceX management for what the authors called the company's failure to tackle a culture of "sexism, harassment and discrimination" within its workplace, the NLRB said in the complaint. Separately, they asked SpaceX to "condemn" Musk's "harmful Twitter behavior."

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Amazing to watch this man undo decades of pr firms and countless dollars spent by rich people to make themselves look good. Carnegie must be rolling in his grave. What a spectacle.
- We're still in the middle of the second act. The third act starts in about 10 to 15 years when the unbridled philanthropy happens attempting to whitewash the actions of the second act in search of redemption.
  
  I think Bill Gates might have inoculated the public against such PR.
  
  I don't think he'll ever give away as much money as gates. He's going to spend it all on Mars for good or bad.
Dude is such a piece of shit.
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Space Karen did a thing? What a surprise.
Everyone I knew at SpaceX that was worth a damn left years ago, so, maybe the rest of them should take the hint and leave too.
This is like the least surprising thing I have read about Elon
Can we send him to Mars already?
- Don't send him to Mars.
  Send him to go retrieve that goddamned Tesla he launched into space.
  I'm sure he can download the latest version of Full Self Driving via Starlink and be juuuuust fine.
  
  Since he’s such an amazing spaceship engineer, we should totally make him fly the rocket.
  This should be interesting.
  
  This is it, after millions of years thinking we were alone in the universe... Alas, first contact:
  "People of earth, we would like to inform you that your vehicle is illegally parked in the orbit of the alpha centauri system, sector b-42. Failure to promptly remove this vehicle until stardate -298953.5519125684 may result in said vehicle being hurled at the sun at the planet's expense"
Poor billionaire. Got criticized 😭
There's often clauses in contracts saying you can't publicly disparage the company. I've definitely had that in mine before.
No clue if that's actually legal or not though.
If this was entirely private, within the company, that wouldn't usually be a problem, but publicly people get fired for making their company look bad all the time. Again, maybe not legal. (edit: Also Musk would definitely be a target for this if he wasn't the CEO)
Edit: I also watched a person criticize the CEO and get into an argument with him on a company call when the CEO asked for feedback, and he was fired the next day.
Me thinks Conservatives really hate Free Speech.

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