Elon Musk Brings The Heat After Union Files Labor Charges Over Trump X Spaces Exchange

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Bil­lion­aire tech exec­u­tive Elon Musk shot back at the Unit­ed Auto Works (UAW) on Tues­day after the union filed labor charges against him and for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.
Dur­ing the Mon­day evening dis­cus­sion on X Spaces, Trump called Musk “the great­est cut­ter” and tout­ed him as some­one who fires employ­ees going on strike. Musk laughed and respond­ed, “Yeah,” as Trump spoke.
Although he declined to men­tion a spe­cif­ic com­pa­ny, CNBC report­ed that Trump had been refer­ring to a time when Musk fired a great deal of the staff at Twit­ter, the social media plat­form he pur­chased in 2022 and rebrand­ed as X.
The UAW, in response to the exchange, announced that it had filed fed­er­al labor charges against Musk and Trump for alleged­ly mak­ing ille­gal attempts to threat­en and intim­i­date work­ers engag­ing in pro­tect­ed activ­i­ty.
CNN not­ed that the Nation­al Labor Rela­tions Board (NLRB) would inves­ti­gate the labor union’s charges and could help set­tle the case if wrong­do­ing is found, and might even sue Trump and Musk on behalf of UAW.
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