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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    23 hours ago

    At this point I’m torn between supporting workers rights, abd thinking anyone who works for a billionaire wants to be a slave. We all know they didn’t get rich by paying employees.

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      anyone who works for a billionaire wants to be a slave

      You say that as if they have the luxury of choosing and rejecting clients at a whim