{"id":346567,"date":"2026-02-18T16:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/german-union-accuses-tesla-toxic-environment-files-defamation-against-plant-manager\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:41:47","slug":"german-union-accuses-tesla-toxic-environment-files-defamation-against-plant-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/german-union-accuses-tesla-toxic-environment-files-defamation-against-plant-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"German union accuses Tesla \u2018toxic\u2019 environment, files defamation against plant manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/german-union-accuses-tesla-toxic-environment-files-defamation-against-plant-manager.jpg\" \/>Germany\u2019s largest industrial union, IG Metall, is accusing Tesla of fostering a toxic working environment at its Gigafactory Berlin, claiming the automaker is overworking employees and pressuring sick staff. The accusations land just two weeks before a works council election that could reshape labor relations at Tesla\u2019s only European factory. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/02\/18\/german-union-accuses-tesla-toxic-environment-files-defamation-against-plant-manager\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/german-union-accuses-tesla-toxic-environment-files-defamation-against-plant-manager\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":346568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}