北京时间8月2日晚间消息，特斯拉位于加州弗里蒙特市(Fremont)主工厂的工人们周一致信公司独立董事，要求特斯拉为工人们提供健康和人身安全保障。
上周五晚，在特斯拉于弗雷蒙特市举行Model 3交车仪式前，公司CEO埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)要求工人们打起精神，目标是在12月底前实现每月生产2万辆Model 3。
迈斯克说：“我们至少要进行为期6个月的艰苦制造工作。”但根据弗里蒙特市工厂工人们三天之后提交的请愿信显示，工人们一直就处于“水深火热”之中。
工人们在信中称：“其中一个最严重的问题关乎到我们的健康和安全。意外事故每天都在上演，一些严重的事故经常影响工人们的士气，并导致生产延迟。因为工人们不得不请病假，进行身体康复。工厂不仅失去了有价值的劳动力，工人的家庭也受到了影响。其实，这些事故本可以避免。”
今年5月，加州工人安全组织Worksafe曾发布报告称，2015年特斯拉位于加州弗里蒙特市的工厂工伤率比美国汽车业的平均水平高出31%。报告显示，特斯拉工厂的工伤率为8.8%(每100名工人中有8.8名受伤)，而全行业的工伤率为6.7%。
8.8%的工伤率甚至高于锯木厂和屠宰场的工伤率。美国劳工统计局数据显示，锯木厂的工伤率为7.3%，而屠宰场的工伤率在5.1%和7.3%之间。
其实，特斯拉制造工厂的工人安全问题已经不是一个新话题。今年2月，自称在弗里蒙特市工厂工作了四年的乔斯·墨兰(Jose Moran)曾发表文章，揭露了特斯拉工厂的恶劣工作条件。
他说：“我们正努力工作，生产世界上最优秀的汽车。但遗憾的是，我们为一家着眼于未来的公司而努力工作，但这家公司的工作条件却是过去才有的。”
在信中，弗里蒙特工厂的工人们还要求管理层告知他们工作环境中所存在的危险，呼吁公司为员工们提供更好的健康与安全保险计划，制定明确的工薪资待遇及晋升方案。
Friday night, the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk
appeared in front of a cheering and adoring audience, much like a
rockstar appears on stage before performing a show, to unveil the new
Model 3 Tesla. The event was to celebrate the first 30 customers (all
Tesla employees) getting their Model 3's.
Early production has been slow, but Musk expects to be able to produce 20,000 Model 3 Teslas per month by December. Ramping up production is going to be brutal, Musk warned.
"We're going to go through at least six months of manufacturing hell," the Tesla CEO told a group of journalists ahead of the Model 3 event. On stage, Musk echoed the sentiment.
According to the Fremont, Calif., factory workers, Tesla is already putting its employees through a lot.
"One of the most serious issues concerns our health and safety," says a letter a group of factory workers from Tesla's main Fremont, Calif., facility submitted to the independent board members of Tesla on Monday, just three days after the Model 3 event and amid an ongoing effort to unionize.
"Accidents happen every day. Severe incidents
frequently impact morale and cause delays in production. We are losing
great workers who are valuable to both our production team and to their
families while they spend time on medical leave, recovering from
preventable injuries."
In May, California-based worker safety organization Worksafe published an extensive report after it analyzed the log of work-related injuries and illnesses at Tesla.
David Butow | Corbis | Getty Images
Workers assemble cars on the line at the Tesla's factory in Fremont, California.
It found that Tesla's "total recordable incidence
rate" was 8.8 percent (8.8 injuries per 100 workers) in 2015, the last
full-year that data is available for. That's 31 percent more than the
6.7 percent total recordable incidence rate for the automobile industry
as a whole, the report found, citing Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
That 8.8 percent injury rate is
higher than the similar injury rates of both sawmills and
slaughterhouses, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sawmills
have an injury rate of 7.3 percent and slaughterhouses have an injury
rate of 5.1 to 7.3 percent, depending on the type of processing.
The issue of worker safety at
Tesla manufacturing facilities is not new. Tesla factory worker Jose
Moran wrote a post on Medium in February detailing the conditions and
proposing a union. "We are working hard to build the world's #1 car —
not just electric, but overall. Unfortunately, however, I often feel
like I am working for a company of the future under working conditions
of the past," Moran wrote.
"Just as CEO Elon Musk is a
respected champion for green energy and innovation, I hope he can also
become a champion for his employees."
The workers say they want access
to information about the dangers of the jobs they are doing, and they
want a voice in the conversation about how to fix the safety issues.
Friday night, the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk
appeared in front of a cheering and adoring audience, much like a
rockstar appears on stage before performing a show, to unveil the new
Model 3 Tesla. The event was to celebrate the first 30 customers (all
Tesla employees) getting their Model 3's.
Early production has been slow, but Musk expects to be able to produce 20,000 Model 3 Teslas per month by December. Ramping up production is going to be brutal, Musk warned.
"We're going to go through at least six months of manufacturing hell," the Tesla CEO told a group of journalists ahead of the Model 3 event. On stage, Musk echoed the sentiment.
According to the Fremont, Calif., factory workers, Tesla is already putting its employees through a lot.
"One of the most serious issues concerns our health and safety," says a letter a group of factory workers from Tesla's main Fremont, Calif., facility submitted to the independent board members of Tesla on Monday, just three days after the Model 3 event and amid an ongoing effort to unionize.
"Accidents happen every day. Severe incidents
frequently impact morale and cause delays in production. We are losing
great workers who are valuable to both our production team and to their
families while they spend time on medical leave, recovering from
preventable injuries."
In May, California-based worker safety organization Worksafe published an extensive report after it analyzed the log of work-related injuries and illnesses at Tesla.
David Butow | Corbis | Getty Images
Workers assemble cars on the line at the Tesla's factory in Fremont, California.
It found that Tesla's "total recordable incidence
rate" was 8.8 percent (8.8 injuries per 100 workers) in 2015, the last
full-year that data is available for. That's 31 percent more than the
6.7 percent total recordable incidence rate for the automobile industry
as a whole, the report found, citing Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
That 8.8 percent injury rate is
higher than the similar injury rates of both sawmills and
slaughterhouses, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sawmills
have an injury rate of 7.3 percent and slaughterhouses have an injury
rate of 5.1 to 7.3 percent, depending on the type of processing.
The issue of worker safety at
Tesla manufacturing facilities is not new. Tesla factory worker Jose
Moran wrote a post on Medium in February detailing the conditions and
proposing a union. "We are working hard to build the world's #1 car —
not just electric, but overall. Unfortunately, however, I often feel
like I am working for a company of the future under working conditions
of the past," Moran wrote.
"Just as CEO Elon Musk is a
respected champion for green energy and innovation, I hope he can also
become a champion for his employees."
The workers say they want access
to information about the dangers of the jobs they are doing, and they
want a voice in the conversation about how to fix the safety issues.
Beyond safety concerns, the
group wants clear guidelines on what is required to be promoted at the
company. "Many of us have worked hard for years with the vague promise
of a raise, to no end," the letter states.
Pay at the Fremont production
facility starts at $18 per hour, which is below both the national
average for auto workers ($25.58), according to The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW).
"We strongly believe that a
defined understanding of success and reward will have an impact on
product quality," the letter says.
Additionally, the Tesla employees say they want to be free to express themselves without fear of retribution. Musk reportedly works to build a culture where employees are encouraged to speak up, specifically for safety reasons.
Yet the Tesla employees request
"neutrality and non-retaliation agreements with workers, which protect
workers' ability to speak freely. Such agreements help build positive
relationships between management and frontline workers."
An email to Tesla seeking a
response to the factory workers' letter had not been responded to by the
time this story was published. However when the Los Angeles Times wrote
about the safety numbers in May, Tesla acknowledged the problems and
said it had made improvements to the factory conditions.
"We may have had some challenges in the past as we were learning how to become a car company, but what matters is the future," a company spokesman told the Times. "With the changes we've made, we now have the lowest injury rate in the industry by far."
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