{"id":13715,"date":"2021-10-15T16:04:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T20:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=13715"},"modified":"2021-12-03T00:16:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:16:01","slug":"material-shortage-forces-ford-to-suspend-production-at-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/material-shortage-forces-ford-to-suspend-production-at-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Material Shortage Forces Ford to Suspend Production At Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. automaker Ford Motors will temporarily cease production at its Hermosillo plant in the Mexican state of Sonora on Friday because of a shortage of materials, the plant&#8217;s labor union said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The union added that workers will receive 75 percent of the salaries on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ford also halted production from October 11 to 12 at its Hermosillo plant, where it makes its Bronco Sport compact SUV and Maverick compact pickup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The union has not identified which materials were in short supply, but other automakers are struggling with a severe chip shortage as manufacturers switched production to parts needed for laptop computers, cell phones and video games during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, Ford said it would also suspend production at its plant in Flat Rock, Michigan, and at parts of its plant in Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, you may view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/autos-transportation\/ford-suspend-production-friday-mexico-plant-material-shortage-2021-10-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> from Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. automaker Ford Motors will temporarily cease production at its Hermosillo plant in the Mexican state of Sonora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13784,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions\/13784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}