After Tesla Employees Signed Letter Asking Elon Musk to Resign, at Least One Has Been Fired

Matthew LaBrot, a Tesla employee who created the website Tesla Employees Against Elon Musk, was fired from the company two weeks ago. LaBrot claimed in a LinkedIn post that he was terminated for having created the site, and because he was part of a larger group of employees who publicly asked Elon Musk to resign from the company. Tesla has faced several crises this year—major recalls, declining sales, litigation, and a volatile stock price, to name a few. Sales of the cars declined for the first time in more than a decade in 2024, and were down again by 13% in the first quarter of 2025. In Europe, the company’s troubles are especially pronounced with a nearly 50 percent sales decline in Germany last month and France seeing a similar 59 percent drop in the same period. Tesla has blamed falling sales on the release of a new Model Y, the company’s best-selling model. On their Q1 2025 earnings call last month, the company explained that there simply weren’t “enough of the new Model Y ava ... Read full article.