Elon Musk's canvassing operation sued in California for alleged labor law violations

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Source: The Guardian

Elon Musk’s troubled canvassing operation on behalf of Donald Trump and the Republican party is now facing a lawsuit in southern California filed by two women who say they were cheated out of wages and expenses as they knocked on doors for an embattled Republican congresswoman.

The suit accuses Musk’s America Pac, which has poured more than $100m into this year’s election campaign, of “willful violations of the California labor code” by paying the plaintiffs less than it promised and refusing to make up the difference.

The women, Tamiko Anderson and Patricia Kelly, say they were hired last month and promised an hourly wage – about $25, according to their lead lawyer – to help turn out votes for Michelle Steel, who represents a closely contested swing district in Orange county, south of Los Angeles.

It was only once the women started working, the suit alleges, that they found out they were being paid instead by the number of houses they visited. The suit further alleges that they were not reimbursed for work-related expenses, including the use of personal cellphones to track their movements along their designated routes.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/02/elon-musk-america-pac-labor-law-violations

[yorkster]

1. Leon Schmuck strikes again.

Hope there are more suits to follow in other states.

[Leghorn21]

2. GOOD NEWS

Those poor workers GRRRRRRR

Hope suit after suit is filed --- the very opposite of "the American Way" is being rubbed in our faces day after day by this pasty punkass PHONY, I just can't

[quaint]

3. Conflicted; misused people working to elect a bad politician.

Here is one example, there are many.

As an OC supervisor, Michelle Steel awarded a $1.2M pandemic meals contract to her campaign mail printer.

[louis-t]

4. The richest guy in the world doesn't pay his bills?

Well, I'll be leaving Michigan now because I have finally heard everything.

[speak easy]

5. Everything is subcontracted.

Musk’s Pac is one of several named defendants in the suit, along with a hiring and payroll company, Liberty Staffing Services; a national canvassing company, the Blair Group; and Representative Michelle Steel’s re-election campaign.

No doubt the principal contracts require compliance with CA law - so misconduct gives America PAC an excuse not to pay the subcontractor - under contract law.

[SunSeeker]

6. Michelle Steel is a total scumbag Republican homophobe. She needs to lose.

And these two women need to win their lawsuit against Musk.

I live in Orange County next to the district Michelle Steel is running in. Our purple district has its own tight Congressional race between anti-abortion loon Scott Baugh and Dem Dave Min. Of course Baugh's ads, which are flooding TV, don't even mention abortion and just bash Min, a former law professor, for being "soft on crime."

I had a young black man come knocking on my door asking if I had voted, and I said yes, and since I had a Harris flag flying from my house, it was obvious who I had voted for. He didn't really seem to care, he was just glad I answered the door, he looked exhausted. I bet he was part of the Musk operation and just trying to get his door knock quota. He was able to tick off an actual contact with me.