06/10/2020

Coronavirus Tracker: How Some Associations are Tackling COVID-19 Challenges

June 10, 2020

Current updates on association response to the global COVID-19 crisis, along with a roundup of conference, travel and business news and information.

Showing Some Muscle
When you’re in uncharted territory and need organization and teamwork to find your way through, what do you do? In Michigan, 150 fitness club owners launched an association.

The new Michigan Fitness Club Association will focus on advocacy for club owners whose businesses have been shut down since March. “Especially in Michigan, fitness has very little voice,” Alyssa Tushman, cochair of the new association, told Crain’s Detroit Business. “We’ve had a little more time than usual to think about our industry.”

The group plans to begin by pushing for relief from rental payments and then, longer term, for future tax credits.

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