Tesla worker claims company did little to halt racial, sexual harassment

Tesla Factory in Fremont, California. (credit: Maurizio Pesce)

A worker at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, has sued the company over what he claims are months of racial, sexual, and physical harassment by his co-workers. Tesla did little to stop it, the suit alleges.

The lawsuit was filed Monday in Alameda County Superior Court on behalf of Dewitt Lambert, an African-American man who moved from Alabama to California in 2012 specifically to seek work at Tesla. In it, Lambert alleges that shortly after his job began in 2015 on the assembly line, he faced consistent harassment by his younger colleagues.

Specifically, Lambert claims that the named co-workers made remarks like "Don't this n****r look just like Samuel Jackson?" and "I bet you my dick is bigger than yours," along with other similar disparaging comments.

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