The view you espoused is fairly common but I don't understand why UAW would lead to poor quality cars when cars are designed and built using standardized procedures with machines that perform the same each time (not a rhetorical question, I really don't understand where this view comes from)
Citation please.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/business/28auto.html
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/business/15auto.html
Closest I can get you since all the journal articles are from conservative-leaning institutions with a vested interest against unionization. All three articles are about the new contracts UAW signed in 2007 as the auto industry was collapsing in the United States, all of which cite massive concessions back to the auto companies. Notably, Ford still got to fold 10 of their original 16 plants scheduled for closure, GM got to shift away massive healthcare obligations, and Chrysler managed to substantially reduce their employment guarantees.
If you were a union interested in a happy balance between company and employee rather than just making your employees score every short-term dollar that they could, you wouldn't need to concede like this with one, let alone every, major United States-founded auto maker.
It's worth noting that GM actually got the biggest haul up front since they got the opportunity to negotiate first.
Hi there, we did this reporting completely independently of the union.
This is another instance of deceptive Tesla wording, when Tesla says:
working directly with union supporters
what they mean is that some of the workers Reveal interviewed were in the union. Of course some of the interviewees weren't tied to the union but those go unmentioned.
I appreciate what Tesla did to popularize electric cars, but everything else isn't that great.
I really enjoy not needing a car and don't enjoy driving, even a nice one.
The various reports of low quality of Tesla's cars (like their doors :/ ) have also contributed to suppress any tesla envy.
If I really needed a car right now, I would start by comparing the different ones on the market, Tesla is not the only player in town anymore.