A Honda plant in Ohio has started reassigning some white-collar employees to work on the assembly line because of staffing shortages caused by COVID-19. But some workers say they aren’t being properly trained or protected. (wosunews)
ListenIn an email obtained by WOSU, a general manager at the Honda plant in Marysville asks employees in accounting, purchasing, and research and development to work on the factory floor.
Departments were required to provide a certain number of their employees to work on the factory floor. A Honda spokesman confirmed the move and says the company has done something similar before. "Due to strong customer demand for our products and the need to carefully manage production during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are facing some temporary staffing issues that require support from associates who do not typically work in production," a Honda spokesman confirmed in an email to WOSU.
"First, we have unionized temp workers to fill in," Rothenberg says."And if there’s not enough of those, other people who are laid off from the nearby area, and then a larger area, and then a larger area, and call them back to work."
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