Workers return to Mexico's border factories as auto sector reopens

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Tens of thousands of workers lined up before dawn to return to work at automotive factories along Mexico's northern border on Monday, the first ...

Tens of thousands of workers lined up before dawn to return to work at automotive factories along Mexico's northern border on Monday, the first day that industries joined the country's list of essential activities beginning to reopen.

At car parts company Flex Ltd , staffers checked the temperatures of several hundred workers, allowing them one by one to enter its Ciudad Juarez plant that supplies Ford Motor Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. .A banner declared:"Welcome! We've been working during this quarantine to give you a safe and clean plant."

Labor advocates questioned whether the reboot was safe despite new measures, such as at Lear Corp , which saw 20 employees killed by the coronavirus. Mexico's government, which has tallied 10,167 deaths from the coronavirus, allowed automotive, aerospace, construction and mining companies to reopen on Monday. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador traveled to Quintana Roo state to launch construction of a tourist train.

 

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