The COVID-19 brothel in Michigan is an empezando of the manufacturer of motor vehicles, and an important plant of the Ram vans has reduced its production increased to the number of working cars.
Alrededor of 10% of the workers of the Stellantis mounting bracket (antique Fiat Chrysler) in Sterling Heights, north of Detroit, he gave positive or is in quarantine, said he saw a person who was informed of the situation. This is equivalent to 600 employees, just like the person whose trust is not identified because the company or the United Auto Workers union is in detail.
The 400,000 square meters plant (5 million square meters) has 7,450 workers working around the clock, but not all of them are on the assembly lines. In order to prevent the deficit, the company has taken over the work of a truck factory in the Warren, Michigan area, which has been obliged to close by the global semiconductor network.
But it turns out that these workers have been trained to build the new Ram vans, the assembly line is moving more slowly than normal, the person, who does not know how much production is lost.
Since the beginning of the week, Michigan has been registering the most common coronavirus case in the country, with 538 per 100,000 residents, according to federal government data.
The UAW union confirms – that the cases of an increase in Sterling Heights. Many of the workers who did not give him a positive message, but were in the hope of trying or if he had been debated and had been in contact with other people who had the virus, said the syndicate.
“Although the Cambian figures follow the turn, we can say that there has been a recent increase in cases, as well as all of Michigan,” said UAW Vice President Celly Estrada in a statement.
Instead, workers should be careful to “maintain the safety of UAW plants and our families and their families.”
Stellantis tampoco quiso dar digits, but confirmed that he had employees who had positive results in the coronavirus tests.
The company confirmed in a statement that it has been taking steps to help workers in the factory salve and evacuate.
“We are going to be aggressive in the follow-up of the recommended directories for the network of contacts”, said the communicator. “We also align firmly with our employees to ensure the same means of health and safety as ever before.”
The Ram van, the third most popular vehicle in the United States, is an important source of information for Stellantis. The company sold 563,000 of these vans and vans last year.
The rivals of Stellantis, Ford and General Motors, said they had not lost production in the last weeks due to COVID-19.
The deceleration of production in Sterling Heights was first reported by Bloomberg News.