(UPDATE: After receiving hundreds of angry tweets, Gibson Guitar announced today that they would not be re-opening their factory on Monday)
Nashville-based Gibson Guitars last week ordered its headquarters employees to work from home to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
However, out at its factory, on old Massam Drive in
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Today, General Motors announced plans to shutter its plants employing more than 45,000 people across the United States.
At first, Derrick McKibben, at General Motors’ plant in Fort Wayne, was relieved, and then today, he got a letter from his plant general manager Gary Duff.
“To ensure an orderly
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This morning, Payday Report broke the story of how Nissan was forcing 6,000 workers to continue to work in dangerous conditions in Canton, Mississippi.
The article went viral; garnering over 300,000 views. Danny Glover weighed in support of the workers.
By 11:12 am, Nissan contacted Payday Report
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On Tuesday, Nissan shut down Britain’s largest car plant in Sunderland, where over 6,000 mostly white members of the British union Unite maintain a powerful check on the company.
However, in Canton, Mississippi, over 4,000 non-union and largely African-American auto workers at Nissan’s plant are being
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“I have been trying to hide my cough all day,” says 38-year-old Lyft driver Carlos Ramos.
Ramos, who lives in Bakersfield, typically drives three hours up into San Francisco to make more money. However, Ramos says the last few days in San Francisco have been a bust.
“It’s like
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