Making the hard call to close the store
When one of his employees’ siblings tested positive for coronavirus, the chairman of a Michigan Ford dealership acted quickly, shuttering the store and switching commissioned workers to a daily pay rate.
As deaths grow, when to reopen the plants?
Mid-April appears to be the earliest that most North America production could resume, but the deaths of at least six UAW members at Ford and FCA underscore the worries many workers have about returning to the factory floor.
How self-driving star fell off course
Anthony Levandowski is a genius, albeit a flawed one, some say. After a career marked by technology triumphs and a generous dose of controversy at Uber and Google, the autonomous-driving pioneer now faces his greatest obstacle yet: possible prison time.
Feds add leasing, rentals to essential-worker guidelines
An earlier memo covered automotive repair and maintenance as well as transportation equipment manufacturing and distribution facilities. Guidance for retail operations, including leasing and rental activities, had not been clear.
Two Ford workers die of coronavirus in Detroit area
The pair are the first Ford employees known to have died from the virus. One of the victims worked at the automaker’s Dearborn Stamping plant while the other was a skilled trades employee at the Ford Data Center in Dearborn, Mich., the UAW said.