US auto industry workers return to jobs amid concerns of second COVID-19 wave

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DETROIT: Factory workers began returning to assembly lines in Michigan on Monday (May 11), paving the way to reopen the US auto sector but stoking ...

A newly-reopened Mini dealership is seen, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease continues, in Santa Monica, California, U.S., May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonDETROIT: Factory workers began returning to assembly lines in Michigan on Monday , paving the way to reopen the US auto sector but stoking fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections as strict lockdowns are eased across the country.

"We're starting up our foundry this week in anticipation of the orders coming in next week," Joe Perkins, chief executive of Busche Performance Group, an engineering, casting and machining firm, said in a telephone interview. People wait outside a newly-reopened tire store, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease continues, in Santa Monica, California, U.S., May 11, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

A small but high-profile sector of the US auto industry became a flashpoint in California on Monday as Elon Musk, chief executive of electric carmaker Tesla Inc , defied local health officials and restarted his factory outside San Francisco. Even New York, epicenter of the US crisis, was set to ease some rules, permitting certain low-risk activities like landscaping, tennis courts and drive-in theaters to reopen this weekend in rural areas.Pressure to loosen business constraints has mounted under a rapidly deteriorating economic outlook. The pandemic has put more Americans out of work than at any time since the Great Depression of the 1930s, prompting Congress to pass trillions of dollars in emergency relief.

 

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