In June, about 20 engineers were invited to a meeting hosted at the headquarters of SpaceX. The subject of the conversation: the company’s founder and CEO, Elon Musk.
Elon Musk's SpaceX moved to fire five employees who had written a letter calling on the company to condemn the “harmful Twitter behavior” of their boss.
Tesla, the electric car manufacturer that Musk also runs, has resisted unionization attempts at its factories and is embroiled in legal action brought by workers who said they were not given adequate warning before a layoff in June. SpaceX, Musk and Edwards did not respond to requests for comment on the former employees’ allegations.Many of the about 11,000 employees at SpaceX do so because of its mission. Founded by Musk in 2002 and based in Hawthorne, California, the company seeks to send people to Mars and make humans a “multi-planetary” species. The company has a huge presence on Florida’s Space Coast and routinely launches its Falcon rockets from there.
Then, in May, Insider reported that SpaceX had paid $250,000 to a company flight attendant in 2018 after she had accused Musk of exposing himself and propositioning her for sex. Musk later said on Twitter that the episode “never happened.” But several employees said their view of her, already tainted by the company’s response to the earlier harassment revelations, dimmed further after Shotwell sent a companywide email saying she did not believe the accusations against Musk.“I have worked closely with him for 20 years and never seen nor heard anything resembling these allegations,” she wrote.Despite their frustrations, some participants said, they hoped to convey a desire to work with executives on a solution.
The initial response seemed favorable. Internal data showed that more than 1,000 people viewed the letter within a few hours, the employees said. More than 400 signed it, many of them anonymously.
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