U.S. pushes Mexico to reopen border factories, even as more workers die from COVID-19
Many of Mexico’s border factories are flouting orders to suspend operations, worsening the spread of the coronavirus.
That has left some factories still humming in the U.S. in need of crucial components because the plants that make them in Mexico have been forced to close. Workers at multiple plants have held protest in recent weeks over a rise in outbreaks and worker deaths. A spokesman for Regal Beloit lamented “the passing of our associates” but said the company does not know if they contracted the disease at its plant.
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