Tesla fired more than 30 employees at its Buffalo facility in retaliation for a union push, organizers said in a complaint filed to a federal labor agency.
Tesla fired more than 30 employees at its Buffalo facility in retaliation for a union push, organizers said in a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board.After hours on Thursday, Tesla responded and called the workers' allegations false, saying 4% of Autopilot data labeling team in Buffalo had been terminated due to poor performance.Tesla vehicles at charging stations at a dealership in Rocklin, California, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 21, 2022.
In a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, Workers United said Tesla fired more than 30 workers from its Autopilot unit at a Buffalo plant as a retaliatory measure and to discourage union activity. The union urged the NLRB for injunctive relief "to prevent irreparable destruction of employee rights resulting from Tesla's unlawful conduct."organizing efforts under the union Tesla Workers United.
The employees are tasked with labeling videos from the company's cars in order to improve Tesla's driver assistance systems, marketed as Autopilot or Full Self Driving. The typical data annotation job at Tesla involves identifying and describing objects in short clips captured by cameras and sensors on Tesla's electric vehicles. Data labelers sometimes need to identify overlapping objects, like a wheel in front of a curb or a pedestrian obstructing the full view of a stop sign. They also review crash footage.
Data annotation specialists have their productivity tracked at a granular level. They're rated on how many clips they can accurately annotate over short periods of time.
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