“I feel blind-sided,” said Arian Beck, one of the fired workers who is supporting the union campaign. ”Tesla Workers United, the workers are partnering with the SEIU-affiliated Workers United — the same union that has won NLRB-supervised elections at nearly 300 Starbucks stores since December 2021, a campaign that also began in Buffalo. Despite the apparent retaliation, Tesla Workers United still hopes to achieve a union breakthrough in Buffalo, just as Starbucks Workers United did there a little over a year ago