'Accordingly, in an effort to protect the Miami Springs community from continued and future nuisances, on Friday, Januthe City Attorney filed a lawsuit on behalf of the City of Miami Springs against Factory Town to enjoin Factory Town from causing further nuisances,' the city stated on its public Facebook page. In a Facebook post announcing the lawsuit this week, Miami Springs said its attorneys attempted to contact Factory Town to demand it reduce the noise but did not receive a response. Workers say their factories have been doing deep cleanings, staggering shifts, and providing hand sanitizer and masksДЄll five workers Business Insider spoke to said their employers had put health and safety rules in place to prevent workers from getting sick, including providing masks, hand sanitizer, gloves, and spacing out workstations six feet apart.Д¬leaves said American Roots came up with a particularly elaborate system of staggering start times, breaks, and end times, to prevent employees from all rushing to punch in at the same time, or sitting down together in a small cafeteria.Screenshot via Google Maps Now Miami Springs has put its legal brief where its mouth is and issued a 37-page legal complaint against the owners of the music venue, Factory Town Holdings LLC, asking a judge to issue an injunction forbidding the defendants from holding another loud music event, which the city characterizes as a 'public nuisance,' evidenced by 243 calls to Miami Springs Police during Art Week.

The factory sells to local hospitals and individuals, and is working 24 hours a day to meet the demand. When Faulkner Plastics was forced to scale down its operations due to the new coronavirus pandemic, the factory repurposed production and began making the face shields to help with the medical supply shortage. Jonathon Pedrosa, an employee at Faulkner Plastics, assembles plastic face shields used for infection control by medical workers, Friday, March 27, 2020, in Hialeah, Fla. 'I know that even though my job seems trivial or the company I work at really is only a drop in the bucket, you know, at least we can help fill that bucket as far as need goes.'Д¬leaves usually makes fleece products like hoodies, jackets, and scarves, and his company had to lay off 80% of its workforce back in March - but then they re-hired them immediately after deciding to switch to producing PPE. 'That's just not right, in my opinion, and it hurts me to hear some of the stories from them firsthand of what they're going through at work,' Cleaves told Business Insider. Some of the workers have been horrified by reports that their local hospitals have been rationing or reusing personal protective equipment.ДЄdam Cleaves, a worker at the Maine textiles company American Roots, said friends of his who are nurses told him directly about the shortage in personal protective equipment (PPE).

N95 masks are prepared to be shipped at the Afya Warehouse, a non-profit medical supply recovery organization, during the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Yonkers, New York, on March 25, 2020.

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