Coronavirus safety actions for Ford include required face masks for everyone entering a Ford facility. Every Ford team member will be provided a care kit including a face mask and other items to help keep them healthy.
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U.S. auto plants weren’t supposed to be closed this long due to the coronavirus pandemic. When the factories began shutting down in March, some automakers only expected the closings to last days, potentially weeks.
But despite costing automakers billions, the majority of auto plants were closed through April and reopening dates remain a moving target for an industry that thrives on certainty and precision.
Issues to reopening auto manufacturing, which makes up 6% of the U.S. GDP, range from obvious ones such as worker safety and abiding by local mandates – something Tesla CEO Elon Musk colorfully discussed earlier this week – to internal problems of supply chain logistics and supplies.
If one of the tens of thousands of parts in vehicles isn’t available,…
