CNN —Eight former SpaceX employees filed labor-law complaints, alleging that Elon Musk’s space company unlawfully fired workers after they wrote company management a letter begging them to publicly condemn Musk’s “harmful” behavior on social media.
The company, which Musk founded in 2002, is one of the most influential and powerful commercial space companies in the world.
SpaceX has nearly 10,000 total employees, according to an NLRB complaint.
The same day the letter was sent, Holland-Thielen and four others were fired, according to the NLRB complaint.
“It’s shocking that SpaceX appears to believe that its mission of getting humans to Mars justifies turning a blind eye to workers’ basic civil rights,” Burgess said.