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Workers: Building Teslas for Elon Musk Is Hell

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Elon Musk says ‘production hell’ is coming as the company tries to crank out 500,000 vehicles. The people making them agree, and they want to organize.

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Elon Musk and many of his employees at his Tesla factory agree on one point: Work is hell.

For Musk, the billionaire CEO of the electric car company, that hell is a technical inconvenience.

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