{"id":321877,"date":"2026-05-18T22:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321877\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:45:07","slug":"as-the-musk-v-altman-trial-wraps-up-alameda-workers-demand-a-piece-of-the-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321877\/","title":{"rendered":"As the Musk v. Altman trial wraps up Alameda workers demand a \u201cpiece of the pie\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The jury found that Musk\u2019s claims were filed outside of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/18\/sam-altman-trial-victory-elon-musk-openai\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statute of limitations<\/a>, stating Musk had three years to sue and did not file on time.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement outside the Oakland courthouse one of Musk\u2019s lawyers, Marc Toberoff, said that this sets an entirely new precedent in Silicon Valley where start-ups can accrue funding as nonprofits and then change their status.<\/p>\n<p>While the $134 billion spat wrapped up inside, a different fight was being platformed outside of the courthouse.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onefairwage.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">One Fair Wage<\/a>, which represents nearly 300,000 workers nationally, advocated for raising the minimum wage to 30 dollars by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Simone Harper, the organization&#8217;s operational manager, says they were using the trial as a way to bring attention to their cause:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no reason that this should get so much attention from the media, and us fighting for fair minimum wages for service workers, tipped service workers, gets none.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harper noted that many workers at Musk\u2019s Tesla in Fremont, one of the counties they are targeting, still make under 30 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The measure just made it on to the November ballot in Berkeley. The group continues to gather signatures in other cities across Alameda County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The jury found that Musk\u2019s claims were filed outside of the statute of limitations, stating Musk had three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-321877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}