Should you haven’t already heard, the United Auto Employees union is formally on strike towards Ford, Common Motors and Stellantis. At the moment, solely three vegetation are concerned — Stellantis’ Toledo Meeting Advanced, Ford’s Wayne, Michigan plant and GM’s Wentzville, Missouri plant, however you possibly can count on strikes at extra vegetation sooner or later if the Massive Three don’t handle to succeed in a good contract with the UAW. So, in fact, it seems Elon Musk determined the perfect factor to do can be to take away the UAW’s Twitter verification.

The Intercept stories that in response to a UAW official, Twitter eliminated the union’s verification badge with out giving them any discover after they went on strike. As of 11:32 a.m., the time the article was printed, the UAW Twitter account was nonetheless lacking its verification badge regardless of paying for verification. When the Intercept contacted Twitter for a touch upon the choice, it acquired an obvious auto-reply that learn, “Busy now, please test again later.”

Curiously, although, it seems that sooner or later after the Intercept’s article was printed, somebody at Twitter modified their thoughts and re-verified the UAW account. So that they’re not even dedicated to the bit sufficient to face by it after different individuals seen. Which isn’t stunning contemplating what a small, weak little man Elon Musk is. Who else would play bizarre, petty little video games with a social media community like that?

Musk can be well-known for his distaste for unions. Tesla’s gotten in hassle with the regulation prior to now for retaliating towards staff pushing to unionize its factories. Not that there’s any purpose for them to need to unionize apart from, effectively, all of the racism, labor regulation violations, security violations and, because the Intercept factors out, decrease pay in comparison with unionized factories.