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The state of California filed a long-awaited lawsuit against electric automobile giant Tesla this week, alleging a pattern of racist discrimination and harassment at the company’s Bay Area plant.
The suit, filed Tuesday in Alameda County Court by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing claims, among other things, that Black employees at the company’s sprawling factory in Fremont, California, were subjected to “racial slurs by managers and supervisors, segregated to the lowest levels of the workforce, including the contracted workforce, and are severely under-represented in the ranks of executives, senior officials, and managers,” according to a press release from the state.
“As early as 2012, Black and/or African American Tesla workers have complained that Tesla production leads, supervisors and managers constantly use the n-word and other racial slurs to refer to Black workers,” the suit contends, noting that the Fremont plant’s 15,000-plus workforce constitutes the sole non-union major automobile factory in the country. “They have complained that swastikas, ‘KKK,’ the n-word, and other racist writing are etched onto walls of restrooms, restroom stalls, lunch tables, and even factory machinery. They have complained that Black and/or African American workers are assigned to more physically demanding posts and the lowest-level contract roles, paid less, and more often terminated from employment than other workers.”
In one of the more egregious instances cited in the suit, the DFEH claims a Tesla human resources official “concluded that ‘banana boy’ was simply a ‘nickname,’ not a racial slur” aimed at a Black employee. In another case, allegations of racist harassment were deemed “unsubstantiated” by the company, even though the accused supervisor in question had admitted to using a slur.
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