{"id":347185,"date":"2026-02-26T09:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/grunheide-musk-puts-tesla-plant-expansion-at-risk-amid-union-dispute\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:35:03","slug":"grunheide-musk-puts-tesla-plant-expansion-at-risk-amid-union-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/grunheide-musk-puts-tesla-plant-expansion-at-risk-amid-union-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Gr\u00fcnheide: Musk puts Tesla plant expansion at risk amid union dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/grunheide-musk-puts-tesla-plant-expansion-at-risk-amid-union-dispute.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Tesla giga berlin gigafactory gruenheide\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" \/><br \/>Works council elections are due in early March at many German companies, including Tesla\u2019s Gigafactory in Gr\u00fcnheide. In a video message to employees, CEO Elon Musk has now weighed in on the vote, cautioning that the planned expansion of the site could be jeopardised if the plant does not remain, in his words, &#8216;free from external influences.&#8217; The remarks add fresh tension to the ongoing debate over union involvement at the Brandenburg facility. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/02\/26\/grunheide-musk-puts-tesla-plant-expansion-at-risk-amid-union-dispute\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>width=&#8221;1400&#8243; height=&#8221;933&#8243; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/grunheide-musk-puts-tesla-plant-expansion-at-risk-amid-union-dispute.jpg&#8221; class=&#8221;attachment-large size-large&#8221; alt=&#8221;Tesla giga berlin gigafactory gruenheide&#8221; decoding=&#8221;async&#8221; fetchpriority=&#8221;high&#8221; loading=&#8221;eager&#8221; \/&gt;Works council elections are due in early March at many German companies, including Tesla\u2019s Gigafactory in Gr\u00fcnheide. In a video message to employees, CEO Elon Musk has now weighed in on the vote, cautioning that the planned expansion&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/grunheide-musk-puts-tesla-plant-expansion-at-risk-amid-union-dispute\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":347186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347185","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}