A former Tesla engineer says the company silenced her entire team after they brought up safety and quality issues (TSLA)

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• Martin Tripp, the former Tesla employee being sued by the company, has filed counterclaims including allegations Tesla tried to intimidate him after he spoke out about waste, quality and safety issues.
• Another former Tesla employee, Cristina Balan, told Business Insider the company silenced her and seven other employees on her team who voiced concern over waste and quality internally.
• Tesla ignored repeated requests for comment on this story.
• At a 2014 meeting, she and Tesla's interior design team voiced concerns about the quality and safety of some of Tesla's parts. She claims these concerns were ignored by Tesla, and that she was then pushed out of the company.
• After being fired she then initiated an arbitration with Tesla claiming whistleblower status and alleging discrimination and retaliation.

In early August, a former Tesla process technician, Martin Tripp, counter-sued the company. 

Tripp claims Tesla, which filed a lawsuit against him in June, falsely accused him of hacking into the company's operating system. He also alleges Tesla waged a smear campaign against him in order to silence his claims of poor part quality and waste at the company.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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