Grünheide: "We are not animals": Employees complain about the fight for space in the Tesla shuttle bus
Electric car manufacturer Tesla has hired hundreds of new employees and at the same time cut shuttle services to the Gigafactory. Internal chats show what this triggers at the stops.
In the early hours of Friday, September 4th, employees of the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla were waiting at Berlin's Südkreuz train station for their shuttlebus to the early shift factory in Grünheide. As they boarded the shuttlebus T6, a struggle for space ensued. According to a man who posted in an internal chat at 5:02 AM, he was shoved and both verbally and physically threatened, making the situation "unbearable." He was forced to leave the bus.
The line bus 422, which departs from Berlin's S-Bahn at 5:51 AM, was so packed that the driver refused further travel. "Many of us were left behind," wrote a Tesla employee later that day. Without an additional bus, they would have been stranded with no way to get to work. By the afternoon, when the early shift ended at 2:36 PM, people were still sitting in the bus aisle and on the staircase due to a lack of space. A window had broken. At 3:06 PM, photos of the overcrowded bus appeared in the internal chat.
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