The union has faith in the protocols, which include social distancing, and urges GM to rigidly enforce them and workers to steadfastly adhere to them.
Still, there’s great cause for concern.
“They have temperature screenings set up, a questionnaire at each entrance. They give everyone a fresh surgical mask,” said UAW Local 2250 President, Glenn Kage. “There’s hand sanitizer and things like that but, as everyone knows, it still can slip through all that. It’s 85 – 100 acres. It’s a big plant. That doesn’t diminish the concerns we have. The last thing we want is to see something start in one department and spread like wildfire.”