Bloomberg by Josh Eidelson and Dana Hull 5/15/2020
Labor leaders are calling for a California panel to reject a state funding request from Elon Musk’s SpaceX after the billionaire defied a San Francisco Bay area health order.
The state’s main union federation and other labor officials wrote to California’s Employee Training Panel on Thursday to voice opposition to the $655,500 that Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is seeking to train existing workers and hire new ones. Their resistance could be pivotal, since half the eight panel members ruling on the request Friday are labor leaders.
Musk “has a proven track record of enriching himself and his companies instead of being a good corporate partner,†Art Pulaski, the head of the California Labor Federation, and three other labor leaders wrote to the panel Thursday.
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