Gilbarco sagde til greensboro-arbejderne, at de kunne blive hjemme og bestille dem næste dag eller blive fyret.

GRØNBORO, NORDCAROLINA - Gilbarco Veeder-Root, the fuel-dispenser and payment-systems shop headquartered at 7300 W. Friendly Avenue, put a letter in employees’ hands on April 1, 2020. If you did not feel safe coming in during COVID-19, the company would honor unpaid leave and would not issue attendance points. Layoffs longer than five days would become permanent. Unemployment help was on the table.

Den 2. april var brevet dødt. Arbejderne fortalte AEGIS Alliance at de blev beordret til at melde eller risikere at blive fyret. De bad om ikke at blive navngivet.

“My employer Gilbarco Veeder-Root in Greensboro, North Carolina said on Wednesday and wrote us a letter saying we can be off work on Wednesday, and if we don’t feel safe we can stay home. Then on Thursday they recalled this letter and said that everyone has to come to work, and we all don’t feel safe.”

Firmaet bekræftede infektioner. osha citerede næsten ingen

Inden juni 2020 WFMY Nyheder 2 rapporteret at Gilbarco Veeder- Root havde bekræftet flere COVID-19 sager blandt Greensboro medarbejdere. De arbejdere fik besked på at karantæne sig selv. Resten af fabrikken fortsatte. Brændstofpumper var "essentielle". De mennesker, der byggede og servicerede dem blev behandlet som undgåelige.

OSHA took more than 26,000 COVID complaints in those first months and cited almost nobody. A later GAO review said that without a COVID-specific standard before June 2021 the agency leaned on voluntary guidance — exactly the bind these workers described. A promise on Wednesday, a threat on Thursday, and a federal workplace cop that would not write a ticket.

Moderselskabet er her stadig. de ansatte var til rådighed

Gilbarco Veeder-Root is now under Vontier Corporation (NYSE: VNT), spun out of Fortive. The parent has described itself as a multi-billion-dollar industrial technology company serving roadside convenience, fleet, and auto repair. Gilbarco still lists Greensboro as global headquarters. The workers who kept the pumps running in April 2020 were the ones told to swallow the risk so the fueling network would not skip a day.

AEGIS Alliance offentliggjorde brevet, fordi en virksomhed ikke får lov til at skrive en staldpolitik en eftermiddag og makulerede det den næste uden at offentligheden ser avisen. Relateret: ÅRSAGER Lovmelding, hvad der skete med jobbene, Kaiser permanent blank- swab- forsøgog mere Nyheder om sundhed.