A trade union member was detained by police at Tesla 's Gigafactory in Grünheide on Tuesday, with the company accusing him of being caught in the act recording a private meeting.  The IG Metall trade union, however, disputed this account of events, amid tensions between Germany's main metalworkers' union and the US carmaker in the run-up to works council elections in early March. The Tesla factory head Andre Thierig took to Elon Musk 's X platform late on Tuesday to comment on the police