Skilled-trades workers and salaried employees also began returning to auto assembly plants to prepare for the wider restart. Factory workers will be issued face masks, checked for fever and required to submit health-screening questionnaires. The target date was set after tacit approval from the powerful United Auto Workers union, which previously opposed a May restart as "too soon and too risky." Ohio, another industrial state and key player in the US auto industry, reopened its manufacturing last week and said most retail shops could welcome customers back on Tuesday. While permitting a return to manufacturing, Whitmer maintained an order requiring residents to remain mostly indoors when not at work.

Source: bd News24 May 12, 2020 01:18 UTC