With hundreds of them in many automobile units getting infected with coronavirus in the second wave, workers want factories to shut down to break the Covid-19 chain spread. With the Tamil Nadu Govt classifying automobile units as Public Utility Service, workers want the companies to treat them as Covid-19 frontline workers and pay a compensation of `50 lakh to the family of the workers who die due to coronavirus.Terming the classification of automobile units as a continuous process industry as illogical, workers want the Tamil Nadu govt to change it.Some units like India Yamaha Motor and Hyundai Motors India Ltd have already started shutting down their operations and others have also started to shut down their shutters.