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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.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't envy the legal battle these guys will probably have to go through to try to get paid.

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.