‘Each day we get news of another brother or sister who has fallen’: United Auto Workers announce death of fourth Fiat Chrysler employee due to the coronavirus | Business Insider
A fourth known Fiat Chrysler union employee has died due to the novel coronavirus, the United Auto Workers announced Thursday.
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Healthcare Workers Union Finds 39 Million N95 Masks for Doctors, Nurses
On Thursday, a union representing nearly 100,000 members working in California hospitals announced that it had located 39 million N95 masks.
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Qantas denies sick leave to its grounded workers amid coronavirus pandemic – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Qantas has told some 20,000 employees that they will not be eligible for paid sick leave — leaving staff who may have been exposed to coronavirus in financial peril.
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United Auto Workers union confirms the death of third Fiat Chrysler plant worker due to COVID-19
The United Auto Workers union announced that an FCA worker died from COVID-19 on Wednesday, marking the third FCA employee to die from the disease.
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Union wary of Ford plan to reopen plants
United Auto Workers (UAW), which represents workers at five Ford plants shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, is expressing reservations about the automaker’s plan to resume production in early April.
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Ford aims to resume production in less than three weeks despite pandemic
GM and Fiat Chrysler haven’t announced plans to restart production.
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News associations see ‘devastating’ peril from the coronavirus shutdown, but have some plans to get through it
"For some, if this goes on more than a month, they will be closing doors.To others, this will be devastating, but they will come out on the other side.” …
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Some Tesla factory employees still had to work after the production shutdown
The local police department says Tesla is complying with a recent shelter-in-place order brought on by the novel coronavirus pandemic. But some factory workers still had to come in this week to finish processing cars for delivery, even as Tesla confirmed the first two cases of COVID-19 in its…
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Millions Of Masks Found For Hospital Staff Fighting Coronavirus By SEIU United Healthcare Workers
The SEIU says they found one supplier who has 39 million masks available and another who says they can make 20 million more masks per week.
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Ford is working with 3M and GE to produce respirators and ventilators, and the UAW to make medical equipment, as the coronavirus pandemic intensifies
Ford is looking to repurpose components and could use its factories to produce the much-needed products.
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