Black Tesla employees accuse company of fostering racial discrimination in major trial
Brett Watson started by showing the court photographs taken throughout Tesla’s Fremont factory, including the N-word, swastikas, the Confederate flag, white supremacist logos and more scratched on to walls. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenBrett Watson started by showing the court photographs taken throughout Tesla’s Fremont factory, including the N-word, swastikas, the Confederate flag, white supremacist logos and more scratched on to walls. There was the N-word scratched on to a grey-blue metal surface and written in black marker on a wall.
- ▪Brett Watson started by showing the court photographs taken throughout Tesla’s Fremont factory, including the N-word, swastikas, the Confederate flag, white supremacist logos and more scratched on to walls.
- ▪Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenBrett Watson started by showing the court photographs taken throughout Tesla’s Fremont factory, including the N-word, swastikas, the Confederate flag, white supremacist logos a
- ▪There was the N-word scratched on to a grey-blue metal surface and written in black marker on a wall.
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Brett Watson started by showing the court photographs taken throughout Tesla’s Fremont factory, including the N-word, swastikas, the Confederate flag, white supremacist logos and more scratched on to walls. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenBrett Watson started by showing the court photographs taken throughout Tesla’s Fremont factory, including the N-word, swastikas, the Confederate flag, white supremacist logos and more scratched on to walls. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesTechnologyBlack Tesla employees accuse company of fostering racial discrimination in major trialLawyers say Black employees at Tesla experienced ‘rampant racism’ that was left unchecked for years at their flagship factory in CaliforniaDara Kerr in Oakland, CaliforniaMon 21 Sep…
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