Tesla calls police on IG Metall rep at Giga Berlin works council meeting before critical vote
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<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/03/Heil-tesla-gigafactory-berlin.png?w=1600" /></div><p>Tesla filed a criminal complaint and called police to its Gigafactory Berlin after accusing an IG Metall union representative of secretly recording a closed works council meeting on Tuesday. Police seized the representative’s laptop. The incident comes just three weeks before roughly 11,000 employees vote in a works council election that could reshape the future of the plant.</p> <p>The confrontation marks the latest, and most dramatic, escalation in the increasingly bitter fight between Tesla and Germany’s most powerful industrial union at the automaker’s only European factory.</p> <a class="more-link" href="https://electrek.co/2026/02/11/tesla-calls-police-ig-metall-rep-at-giga-berlin-works-council-meeting-before-critical-vote/#more-455263">more…</a>
<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/03/Heil-tesla-gigafactory-berlin.png?w=1600" /></div><p>Tesla filed a criminal complaint and called police to its Gigafactory Berlin after accusing an IG Metall union representative of secretly recording a closed works council meeting on Tuesday. Police seized the representative’s laptop. The incident comes just three weeks before roughly 11,000 employees vote in a works council election that could reshape the future of the plant.</p>
<p>The confrontation marks the latest, and most dramatic, escalation in the increasingly bitter fight between Tesla and Germany’s most powerful industrial union at the automaker’s only European factory.</p>
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