There are signs the billionaire is becoming unpopular with the very demographic
group most likely to buy EVs
Elon Musk has long flirted with rightwing politics, and delights in pushing an
image of himself as a contrarian showman. Yet in recent months the billionaire’s
political allegiances have started to raise a question for Tesla, the company
that he built into the world’s largest electric carmaker: just how far can he go
before customers start to abandon his products?
The German pharmacy chain Rossmann was one of the first to put its head above
the parapet this week. The family-owned company announced that it would not add
to the 34 Teslas in its company fleet because of Musk’s endorsement of Donald
Trump for US president.
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TUC insists fight will go on after GMB fails to secure right to represent
retailer’s staff by just 29 votes
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The TUC has insisted the battle for union recognition at Amazon will go on,
after workers at the US retailer’s Coventry warehouse rejected the right to
collective bargaining by a majority of just 29 votes.
In a historic ballot that could have forced Amazon to recognise a union for the
first time in the UK, 50.5% of the workers who voted chose to refuse the
proposal for the GMB union to represent them. If 15 had switched sides it would
have gone the other way.
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