UAW president: 'It's risky' to send factory workers back to auto plants in early May
Source: Detroit Free Press
UAW President Rory Gamble said Thursday the labor union does not support sending factory workers back into the plants in early May, as some automakers have suggested.
"We feel it's risky at this point in time. I'm not comfortable with an early May return," Gamble told the Free Press. "We don't see a solid opinion from medical doctors or scientists that it is time to reopen society. You've got to understand, in a manufacturing environment we can put a lot of protocols in place that will help mitigate the spread of the virus but it's almost impossible to practice 100% social distancing.
"Our members are going to be working in this type of environment for a long time with the threat of infection hanging over them."
His concern applies to plants nationally, not just Michigan, he said.
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