Michigan May Close Auto Plants If Residents Don’t ‘Mask Up’, Gov. Whitmer Says
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Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer has a warning for local residents: if they don’t wear a face mask, the state will be forced to once again close retail storefronts and other businesses – and that would include automotive assembly plants.
2020 Silverado HD at Flint Assembly
Michigan initially gave automakers like General Motors the green light to re-open their vehicle assembly plants in the state back in May, when COVID-19 cases had begun to subside in the state. The pandemic situation appears to have taken a turn for the worse in recent weeks, though, with Michigan reporting its highest daily case total since May 14th on Wednesday. As of this writing, Michigan had just under 80,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 6,351 deaths.
GM, along with its crosstown rivals at Ford and Fiat Chrysler, will be anxious to ensure its vehicle assembly plants remain open. GM builds a handful of important models in Michigan, including the Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD at Flint Assembly and the Chevrolet Traverse and Buick Enclave at Lansing Delta Township, among more. The Detroit Big Three also operate countless parts and components plants in Michigan that serve various assembly plants across the nation.
GM has said previously that it does not believe its vehicle assembly plants and parts factories pose a health hazard to employees. With the safety protocols it has put in place, which include taking employees’ temperatures and requiring them to wear PPE at all times when indoors, the automaker is confident it can keep its plants up and running while also protecting employees from COVID-19.
The UAW recently asked GM to idle its Arlington Assembly plant in Texas while the number of COVID-19 cases in the state subsidies, but the automaker denied the request, saying “there’s no need to interrupt production,” as it has put in place ” protocols designed to keep the virus out of the facility.”
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“May close” means “will close” with her. With all grocery stores and schools requiring masks now, wheee a people not wearing masks? The parks???? She trying to get trump re-elected?
What a disaster. If y’all had taken this seriously we’d be done with it by now. “BUT MY FREEDOM” morons.
Hate to tell you but Covid-19 will never go away unless there is a vaccine that works 100%.
Or, prove your point by identify a country that has no new cases and provide a list of current restrictions they have in place and tell me how many of those restrictions you currently follow.
I don’t think it’ll ever go away nor do most level headed people. The goal is a vaccine that works on the level of the normal flu vaccine. Also, New zealand has killed the virus completely to answer your question. The problem is arrogant people who refuse to wear masks and refuse to adapt to the new world. If everyone, EVERYONE wore a mask and respected the guidelines, we’d be done with this crap by now.
You are correct. A total lack of leadership at the top.
Its simple, weeks after protest and riots, looting, increased cases but nobody wants to admit this. GM can also tell her to go stick it where the sun doesn’t shine if the people in plants are following safety protocols.
It’s been longer than 2 weeks since then bud. I don’t recall Florida having mass protests like other states either, and they’re the worst one for new cases.
They had protest too. Almost all states did. And area that had them have the highest increases. The dumb mayor of New York even said don’t ask if people were protesting if they get covid. its a game that needs to stop. yes the virus is real but the reporting of actual deaths and infections are wrong. My brother works in a hospital with the software tracking deaths. Everyone is dying of covid and nothing else. Even if a person had a heart attach and dies and they test covid on you, you died of Covid. Numbers are being fudged for political gain.
Florida positive test have been exposed that the numbers are wrong, places were reporting 100 percent infection of everyone that was tested. The testing is not right.
too bad GM shut oshawa truck plant down! there is no covid there and everyone wears a mask in public
it is hard to believe this is the same country that saved the world in world war 2.
now we have a bunch of whiners complaining about wearing a mask.
and it all starts with the fat orange man at the top.
Ill take the achieving fat orange man any day before the polite, underachieving demi god who was voted in because of his skin color. The same man whose foreign policy was “lead from behind” or as the military rephrased it “the cowards tactic” No wonder the military hated him.
You literally just said that Obama was elected because he’s black? You’re a special kind of piece of human trash.
what? no mention that obama was born in kenya?
if you are going to drink the bonespur’s kool-aid, drink it all!!!!
i’d bet anything when you were growing up, you weren’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Amazing that this idiot democrat never raised a peep with the rioters, looters, and thieves not wearing masks or distancing – which contributed ten fold what she is talking about. Her sheeple ie the soy boys and micro triggered actually believe her.
Respectfully, don’t quite understand how folks understand / acknowledge the long-standing rule of “No Shoes, No Shirts, No Service”…yet object to wearing a Mask to help mitigate an arguably greater public health risk.
No shoes no shirt no service is a rule set by the privately owned establishment, not force upon by high and mighty government officials, over like you said, the highly arguably possible, yet scientifically less plausible with each and every day, public risk
None of the workers in the article’s pics are wearing masks?!? If you are going to run an article about wearing masks, and make an argument that GM plant workers are in compliance with the requirement for them to wear masks, shouldn’t you use pics of plant workers wearing masks?
Transportation industries are critical strategic infrastructure. The Governor has not authority to curtail or limit interstate commerce or to interfere with an industry of national importance. If I was GM I would say pack sand and get a bunch of SF guys for private security in case she sends some oath breaking police to enforce it.
Evil B………… This used to be a great state then a….. took over. She is really stupid!!!!!
All politics, just another Democrat governor trying to damage the economy. The number of tests is increasing, over 700K a day now in the US, so of course the number of positive cases is “spiking”. It’s all a fraud.