--- title: "New Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Alleges Disgusting Behavior at Tesla Factory" description: "Lawsuit Madness Tesla has been hit with a sexual harassment suit by a factory worker — for the second time in two weeks. As Reuters and others report, a woman who worked on the assembly line at Tesla's Fremont, California factory said she suffered \"sexual harassment on a near-daily basis\" from her manager. Along with repeated..." date: "2021-12-13" modified: "2021-12-13" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/sexual-harassment-lawsuit-alleges-disgusting-behavior-tesla" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Tesla" tags: - "elon musk" - "sexual harassment" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # New Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Alleges Disgusting Behavior at Tesla Factory ![As Reuters and other outlets reported, a woman who worked on the assembly line at Tesla's Fremont, California factory said she suffered "sexual harassment on a near-daily basis" from her manager.]() *\Image: Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images\* ## Lawsuit Madness Tesla has been hit with a sexual harassment suit by a factory worker — for the second time in two weeks. As [*Reuters* and others report](), a woman who worked on the assembly line at Tesla's Fremont, California factory said she suffered "sexual harassment on a near-daily basis" from her manager. Along with repeated inappropriate behavior that included unwanted massages and comments about the manager's penis size, former Tesla employee Erica Cloud said that her manager also used a crude racial term to refer to her. It was bad enough that Cloud was allegedly made to "fear for her safety," but in her suit, the former assembly line worker also claims that the company retaliated against her after she reported her manager. She claimed that after her report, she was often sent home or asked not to work for "arbitrary reasons," resulting in the loss of wages. ## Double Jeopardy Cloud's suit was filed two weeks after Jessica Barraza, another worker at Tesla's Fremont factory, filed a similar lawsuit against the company. In [an interview with *The Washington Post*](), Barraza said her male coworkers would catcall her on the factory floor, touch her, and, at least once, physically block her or pick her up. In her suit, Barraza — who still works at Tesla on the company's Model 3 line — told the *Post* that even though it had been three years since the harassment began, it still "robs your sense of security" and "almost dehumanizes you." Futurism, *Reuters*, and [*Business Insider*]() have all reached out to Tesla for comment, but as the [company fired its whole PR team]() in October 2020, there has so far been radio silence. Both harassment suits were presaged by yet another Fremont employee who won $137 million in damages in October in a [racial discrimination lawsuit against Tesla](). This trio of lawsuits are far from the first Tesla's been hit with, but together they paint a portrait of the company as a "frat house," per Barraza's November lawsuit. It's all fine and good for Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk to put forth a [rosy utopian worldview](), but that seems to be at direct odds with the alleged — and repeated — workplace culture at its own facility. **READ MORE:** [Tesla sued by second female worker over sexual harassment, retaliation]() \[*Reuters*\] **More on Tesla lawsuits:** [*Tesla Pays Former Employee $1 Million for Calling Him Horrific Racial Slur*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()