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On Friday, SpaceX fired a group of employees<\/a> involved in crafting an open letter to corporate leaders that criticized CEO Elon Musk \u2014 and labor lawyers now say the firings may have violated US labor law. The letter circulated Thursday calling for stronger anti-harassment policies at SpaceX<\/a> and a more restrained Twitter presence from Musk. At least five employees were fired shortly after the letter was published.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear whether any of the fired employees will try to file suit with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). But if they do, lawyers say they will have a strong case. \u201cTo be covered, an action has to be concerted (certainly the case here) and it has to relate to working conditions,\u201d says Charlotte Garden, a law professor at Seattle University who wrote about employee speech rights for the Economic Policy Institute<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt strikes me as a letter that is mainly about working conditions\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nThe most difficult part of retaliation cases is often proving that an employee really was fired in retaliation for speaking up, but SpaceX has made it easy to show the connection. In her note to employees after the firings, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell made clear that the employees had been terminated specifically because of their involvement with the letter, which she characterized as \u201coverreaching activism.\u201d Even if SpaceX tried to deny it, the simple timing of the firings \u2014 coming less than 24 hours after the letter itself \u2014 makes the connection hard to ignore. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis could very much be seen as retaliation for speaking up,\u201d says Mary Inman, a whistleblower attorney at Constantine Cannon. \u201cWhat does this say to workers? It basically says, we don\u2019t want to hear from you.\u201d<\/p>\n
SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\nFor a legal challenge, the main hurdle would be to show that the letter itself constitutes employees coming together to discuss working conditions, but the letter\u2019s emphasis on company goals and \u201cno asshole\u201d policy seem to fit that model. There are exceptions<\/a> if speech is vulgar, abusive, or directed at customers, but none fits easily with the circumstances of the SpaceX case.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cRecent events are not isolated incidents; they are emblematic of a wider culture.\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n\u201cIt strikes me as a letter that is mainly about working conditions,\u201d Garden told The Verge<\/em>. \u201cI think the NLRB would see it that way too.\u201d<\/p>\n
If the case is successful, SpaceX could be forced to reinstate the fired employees with back pay. Notably, the protections would not apply to managers and supervisors, who aren\u2019t subject to the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).<\/p>\nThe issues raised in the letter also fit into long-standing harassment concerns within SpaceX. In December, five former SpaceX employees came forward with complaints of specific harassment issues they felt had been mishandled. A former intern filed suit against SpaceX in 2020<\/a>, claiming the company retaliated against her after she reported a harassment incident. The employee letter makes the same point itself, saying \u201crecent events are not isolated incidents; they are emblematic of a wider culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
This would not be the first time one of Musk\u2019s companies has run afoul of US labor law. After a heated fight over attempts to unionize Tesla\u2019s Fremont plant under the United Auto Workers, the NLRB ordered Tesla to reinstate a fired employee with back pay. Musk was also ordered to delete a tweet<\/a> implying that unionization would mean the end of stock options at the company \u2014 although, over a year after the order was issued, the tweet remains live<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Already, Communications Workers of America (CWA) is taking the SpaceX firings as more fuel for the ongoing effort to organize tech workers. \u201cElon Musk says he\u2019s committed to free speech – except when his employees are exercising their legally protected right to speak out about their working conditions,\u201d the CWA said in a statement. \u201cWe hope this will be a rallying point for workers at SpaceX, just like it was at Google and Activision.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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