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3 former Tesla employees have submitted a lawsuit alleged that they were subject to constant racial discrimination and harassment in the electric car factories of the company. The case was initially reported by the Mercury News and it was submitted yesterday in the Alameda County Superior Court in California. The 3 plaintiffs in the suit are African American. The men mentioned the repeated use of racial slurs and use of racist drawings by coworkers and superiors. They also claimed that they reported the multiple and repeated incidents to both the staffing agency that hired them and their supervisors at Tesla. Demetric Diaz (one of them) believes that his reporting of treatment to his supervisor led to his eventual firing. Another plaintiff, Owen Diaz left the company after neglected by his supervisor to address this treatment.

The Tesla spokesman informed Mercury News that they had received no communications in regard to racism from these workers. They found one email from Owen Diaz to his supervisor that reported aggressive behavior coworkers. The spokesman said that the email made no mention of the use of any racist language or epithets. Additionally, Tesla underlines the fact that these workers were employed by the staffing agency, not the company directly. This isn’t the first that’s been brought against Tesla for racial harassment. A man named DeWitt Lambert has a similar case, stating that he was subject to repeated and continuous racial slurs by co-workers. The company just fired hundreds of workers this week due to poor performance reviews.