Willie Shane broke the asphalt on Elon Musk’s Music City Loop project this summer. Seven of his crew had been the sole excavators, fabricators and dump trucking company on The Boring Company’s proposed tunnel through Nashville for months.
Then came Monday night, when they walked off the site.
“I moved the equipment myself,” Shane said in an interview with the Banner on Tuesday.
“We were really skeptical from the beginning, and then since then, things pretty much just went downhill,” he added.
“We were supposed to be paid every 15 days. And then they switched accounting firms, and then it went from 15 days to 60,” Shane said.
A contract that has NET15 terms being unilaterally switched to NET60 is a clear violation, and that should have been the stoppage of work right there.
I’ve never heard of 60 days. That’s sketchy as fuck.
Not jusr stoppage. Every day you dont get paid, you fill it back in. Fuckers a billionaire. He could pay you.
A billionaire who didn’t pay the bills?
I don’t know which would be more appropriate: shocked Pikachu, or shocked Futurama Fry?
Could even be the astronaut with a gun.
I don’t envy the legal battle these guys will probably have to go through to try to get paid.
This is how jerks like Trump and Musk operate. They hire locals to do the work, knowing that they hold all the leverage. Then they withhold payment, usually asserting that something was wrong with the work. Then they litigate. Litigation is costly, and it’s easy to spend millions of dollars fighting legal battles, so the little guy is bullied into settling for a fraction of what was owed, because a full-on legal battle would likely wipe him out.
The difference between a Legal System and a Justice System
We actually have a justice system in america, its just the legal system gets in the way, and I dont think anybody’s really tried to use it since Alexander berkman
Destroy all musk hardware, fill the tunnel back in, just dp that til they get other paying work.
60 day pay periods? The hell?
At this point I’m torn between supporting workers rights, abd thinking anyone who works for a billionaire wants to be a slave. We all know they didn’t get rich by paying employees.
I’d say Nashville should get its money back, but look what they do with it.
Didn’t this project deliberately avoid city property to avoid needing their approval? I recall some shady dealings to dodge regulatory requirements.
If they don’t pay, go, tell it on the mountain, that Musky MAGA stiffs your pay.
Nashville should have consulted with Shelbyville before starting.
Shake your fist harder son!
Has someone considered that they might have been bored? /j
It’s gonna get bad before it gets worse.
