Marysville Honda Plant Forces Office Employees To Work The Assembly Line

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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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wosunews That's because they treat the assembly line unfairly.

wosunews White collar workers finally reaping the shitty workplace policies they sow?

wosunews 😂😂😂😂

wosunews ...And then They came for the blue collar employees but I did not speak out because I was not a blue collar employee.....

wosunews They won't make it a week.

wosunews Glad my 10 year old Subaru Outback runs and looks like a new car.

wosunews Good. Team work and a good culture

wosunews I think what you meant to say here is that Honda is giving these “brave patriots” the opportunity to be “heroes” as they will now be “essential workers” putting their bodies on the line for the economy

wosunews Boo fucking hoo.

wosunews Don't worry about it, your family will enjoy your life insurance 👌 money

wosunews Poor little 'white collar' peeps gotta get their 'hands dirty' supporting their hardest workers' efforts on the assembly line...... The REALinjustice is if they make more $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ doing equalWORK!!!?

wosunews I'm glad I won't need a new car for a while.

wosunews I don't I think I could trust buying a car that was made in 2020

wosunews if i remember this right. michael keaton did this in the 80s. itll come down to making enough cars under a tight deadline. could be looney tunes.

wosunews Sooooo, the people doing the grunt work are getting sick and dying. The correct answer is, 'How do we solve this problem, while compensating the grunt workers appropriately for risking their lives.' The real world answer is, 'Find the next batch of throwaways and get'm in there.'

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