“Ultimately, we’re in this together. Because if we don’t build trucks, Ford Motor Company is gone, ” said Todd Dunn, president of UAW Local 862, which represents more than 14,000 hourly workers at Ford’s two Kentucky assembly plants.
DETROIT: The United States auto industry is slowly returning to life, with vehicle assembly plants scheduled to reopen on Monday and suppliers gearing up in support as the sector that employs nearly one million people seeks to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) all have been preparing for weeks to reopen their North American factories in a push to restart work in an industry that accounts for about 6% of US economic activity.
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