SAN FRANCISCO — Jessica Barraza was only months into her job at Tesla’s factory when she said she began experiencing near daily harassment. The work environment became so hostile it triggered anxiety, leading her to take a medical leave with a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, she added.
Barraza on Thursday filed a rare lawsuit against the electric vehicle maker, alleging Tesla fostered a climate of sexual harassment at its Fremont, Calif., factory, where she says she was subjected to catcalling and aggressive physical touching.
Co-workers would describe her as having a “Coke bottle figure,” “onion booty,” “fat a--,” “fat a-- t--ies,” Barraza, 38, recalled in an interview with The Post. In the suit, she alleges a male co-worker picked her up by her waist, “pressing against her torso under her breasts” and placed her next to him. In a separate incident, the lawsuit alleges, a male co-worker stuck his leg between her thighs as she was clocking back in from lunch. (Another employee corroborated the incident to The Post.) That was the last straw, she said.
“After almost three years of experiencing all the harassment, it robs your sense of security — it almost dehumanizes you,” said Barraza, a production associate who works on the Tesla Model 3.
In the suit, filed in California Superior Court in Alameda County,...
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