<p>The US&nbsp;National Labor Relations Board has asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk to delete his&nbsp;2018 tweet threatening employees&nbsp;would lose their stock options if they formed a union was illegal.</p>

<p>The NLRB backed a ruling from a US&nbsp;labour judge in 2019 that the electric-car maker had committed a series of violations of the National Labor Relations Act in 2017 and 2018.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues &amp; give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW &amp; everybody already gets healthcare.</p>
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<p>The board ordered Tesla to direct&nbsp;Musk&nbsp;to delete the tweet and to post a notice addressing the unlawful tweet at all of its facilities nationwide and include language that says "WE WILL take appropriate steps to ensure&nbsp;Musk&nbsp;complies with our directive."</p>

<p>The United Auto Workers (UAW)in 2018 filed a complaint with the NLRB over the&nbsp;Musk&nbsp;tweet that it said was illegally threatening to take away benefits from workers who join the union.</p>

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<p>At that time, the UAW was seeking to represent workers at Tesla's facility in Fremont, who are not unionised.</p>

<p>“This is a great victory for workers who have the courage to stand up and organize in a system that is currently stacked heavily in favour of employers like Tesla who have no qualms about violating the law,” UAW Vice President Cindy Estrada said in a statement.</p>

<p>The NLRB also directed Tesla to offer one former employee reinstatement as well as to rescind 2017 rules that prohibited distributing union literature in its parking lot on non-work time and rules that barred distributing union stickers, leaflets, and pamphlets without first obtaining permission.</p>

<p>Tesla in 2018 defended&nbsp;Musk's comment, saying it simply recognized that other automakers whose workers are represented by the UAW do not provide stock options.</p>

<p>In a separate tweet,&nbsp;Musk&nbsp;had accused the UAW of driving General Motors and Chrysler to bankruptcy and losing "200,000+ jobs for people they were supposed to protect."</p>

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The US National Labor Relations Board has asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk to delete his 2018 tweet threatening employees would lose their stock options if they formed a union was illegal.

The US National Labor Relations Board has asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk to delete his 2018 tweet threatening employees would lose their stock options if they formed a union was illegal. The NLRB backed a ruling from a US labour judge in 2019 that the electric-car maker had committed a series of violations of the National Labor Relations Act in 2017 and 2018. Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 21, 2018 × The board ordered Tesla to direct Musk to delete the tweet and to post a notice addressing the unlawful tweet at all of its facilities nationwide and include language that says "WE WILL take appropriate steps to ensure Musk complies with our directive." The United Auto Workers (UAW)in 2018 filed a complaint with the NLRB over the Musk tweet that it said was illegally threatening to take away benefits from workers who join the union. Also read| Elon Musk says Tesla customers can buy its electric vehicles with bitcoin At that time, the UAW was seeking to represent workers at Tesla's facility in Fremont, who are not unionised. “This is a great victory for workers who have the courage to stand up and organize in a system that is currently stacked heavily in favour of employers like Tesla who have no qualms about violating the law,” UAW Vice President Cindy Estrada said in a statement. The NLRB also directed Tesla to offer one former employee reinstatement as well as to rescind 2017 rules that prohibited distributing union literature in its parking lot on non-work time and rules that barred distributing union stickers, leaflets, and pamphlets without first obtaining permission. Tesla in 2018 defended Musk's comment, saying it simply recognized that other automakers whose workers are represented by the UAW do not provide stock options. In a separate tweet, Musk had accused the UAW of driving General Motors and Chrysler to bankruptcy and losing "200,000+ jobs for people they were supposed to protect."

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