US Auto Industry Returns to Life After Lockdown

US Auto Industry Returns to Life After Lockdown
FCA assembly workers arrive for an early morning shift re-opening at the Warren Truck Assembly Plant in Warren, Mich., on May 18, 2020. Rebecca Cook/Reuters
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WARREN, Michigan—The Detroit Three automakers and their suppliers began restarting assembly lines on Sunday after a two-month CCP virus lockdown in a slow revival of a sector that employs nearly 1 million people in the United States.

On a chilly and damp Monday morning, hundreds of workers at Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s (FCA) truck plant in Warren, Michigan, began lining up before 4 a.m. to start the 5 a.m. shift. Signs overhead read: “Let’s restart.”