“Nobody said no. Nobody said why? Everybody said ‘let’s go’.” The UAW members who did this are likely on Trump’s sucker list along with veterans and Gold Star families.
Ford Motor is targeting production of 100 million masks through 2021 for communities across the U.S. with limited access to personal protective equipment. The company is focusing on military veterans, schools, food banks and African American communities, among others.
Masks will support presumptive President Joe Biden’s pending mask wearing mandate. Ford, currently manufacturing 2.5 million medical-grade masks a week for its employees and at-risk communities, is adding mask-making machines by mid- to late-October to increase production and deliver on its goal.
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Covid Labor Day 7 September 2020 Sees a Sick Economy
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Labor Day 2020 sees the US economy in trouble because of Covid 19 and the bungled federal government response to the ongoing global pandemic. In August, the U.S. economy added 1.4 million jobs according to the Labor Department, down from 1.7 million in July and down abruptly from the 4.8 million added in June. Workforces are still more than 11 million jobs below their pre-pandemic level.
The unemployment rate fell to 8.4%, down from 14.7% in April and 10.2 % in July (The so-called U-3 measure is people without jobs who must have looked for a job in the last four weeks). Any way you look at it, joblessness is still higher than the peak of many past recessions. The real unemployment rate was 14.2% because it contains 535,000 discouraged workers. (This is U-6 or the real rate because it includes people who would like a better job. It also includes those who are underemployed and marginally attached.)
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