While Detroit automakers’ unionized auto factories have been idled by the coronavirus pandemic, farm and construction equipment makers Deere and Caterpillar have won the support of the United Auto Workers and other unions to run their facilities during the pandemic. Giving employees sick time without penalty, temperature screenings, staggered shifts and hiring a hygiene-auditing firm are some of the measures the two companies have taken to reassure employees returning to production lines when many union and non-union workers balk at reporting for jobs that could expose them to the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Detroit’s auto companies had …read more
Source:: Yahoo Finance
