Court Documents are one of the most important primary sources of information in general. While the trial hasn’t started yet, major US agencies like the US EEOC (https://www.eeoc.gov/) are known for filing well reasoned cases. So these claims are anything but light.

I don’t think anything here is “new” to people who have been paying attention to Tesla for the past 7 years. But… many people have only begun paying attention since Twitter meltdown of maybe November 2022.

So to catch you newbies up: Tesla has been losing cases to African American workers and contractors, who have been denigrated by their bosses. Black-only workstations are called “Plantations”, there’s few opportunities to climb the ladder if you’re black (few executives are black), etc. etc. The whole gamut of obvious racial inequality, and provably so in the court of law.

It was only a matter of time before the federal agencies got involved, and now we finally have it.

I tried to post some select quotes, but I think that Lemmy.world’s moderation plugins or something might be acting up (and preventing me from posting these quotes) because its so bad. Read around paragraphs 17+ on page 3 and 4, and you’ll see what I mean.