By Shannon Jones

WSWS
14 March 2020

Workers at the Fiat Chrysler Windsor Assembly Plant walked off the job Thursday over concerns about the spread of coronavirus at their plant and after learning that a worker at the FCA Kokomo Transmission Plant in the United States was diagnosed with the potentially deadly disease. Windsor Assembly is the largest FCA plant in Canada and employs 6,000 workers building the Dodge Caravan and Chrysler Pacifica vans.

Plant management confirmed that one worker at Windsor Assembly was on self-quarantine after their possible exposure to the virus. According to the latest reports, management got production restarted Friday afternoon following the intervention of the federal Ministry of Labour and the Unifor union. The same day workers walked off the job in Windsor it was reported that the wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tested positive for coronavirus.

A statement issued by FCA management declared, “The Ministry of Labour visited the plant on March 12 to investigate and determined our protocols and work environment to be safe. We worked with the local union and Unifor leadership as well as government officials to address this issue.”

The statement did not explain why auto assembly plants with thousands of workers were safe when political jurisdictions all over North America were declaring states of emergencies, closing schools and public corporate offices and banning large public gatherings in an attempt to halt the potentially catastrophic spread of COVID-19 infection […]

Via https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/14/shap-m14.html