Fiat Chrysler Cars has misplaced one other employee to COVID-19, the UAW stated Thursday.

The demise of a person employed at FCA Transport in Sterling Heights, Mich., marks the fourth of an FCA union employee linked to the brand new coronavirus.

"As this disaster continues, every day we get information of one other brother or sister who has fallen to this horrible virus," UAW President Rory Gamble stated in a press release.

One of many staff labored at FCA's Ram pickup manufacturing unit in Sterling Heights, Mich. One other was employed at a plant in Kokomo, Ind. As well as, a employee at FCA's Warren Truck Meeting Plant close to Detroit died Wednesday. The UAW has attributed the entire deaths to the virus in a number of public statements by Gamble.

The automaker on Sunday stated it was suspending work related to take a look at laboratories and pilot vegetation at its Auburn Hills, Mich., headquarters after a non-union technical help employee there died following a optimistic take a look at, two Detroit newspapers reported.

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