NLRB Raps Lucid For Firing Employees Who Backed Union

A federal labor regulator has filed a complaint against electric vehicle maker Lucid, accusing the company of firing two employees who supported a United Auto Workers (UAW) union organizing effort at the company.

Lucid said it respects employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to choose whether or not to organize. I Photo: Lucid Motors Facebook

The complaint was filed Tuesday by a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Arizona, who investigated the claim about the firings early last year. It was disclosed by the agency recently.

Lucid has about 2,000 hourly US workers, according to the UAW. It is a niche automaker with a target of making between 8,000 to 8,500 luxury electric vehicles (EVs) this year.

It also lost $2 billion in the first nine months of last year but is backed with money from and is majority-owned by Saudi Arabia. Lucid said it respects employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to choose whether or not to organize.

“We are confident that there is no factual basis for the complaint,” it said.

The UAW announced an effort to organize 13 nonunion automakers with plants in the US, including foreign automakers like Toyota, Honda, and Volkswagen, as well as domestic EV makers like Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid.

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