Tesla Says It Laid Off 4 Percent New York Employees Before Union Campaign

Tesla Says It Laid Off 4 Percent New York Employees Before Union Campaign
Tesla Inc. Gigafactory 2, which is also known as RiverBend, in Buffalo, N.Y., on March 26, 2020. Lindsay DeDario/Reuters
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Tesla Inc. said on Wednesday it laid off 4 percent of the employees in the Autopilot labeling team in Buffalo as part of a performance review cycle conducted every six months.

The automaker responded to a union complaint filed with a government agency alleging that the company laid off dozens of employees from its Autopilot department at its Buffalo plant in New York, a day after workers launched a campaign to form a union.