Ford is temporarily closing plants in Taiwan, China, and South Africa.  The Taiwan plant will be closed for about two weeks.  The plants in China and south Africa will be closed for one week.

Ford did not say whether the lost production would be made up later, or if it would adjust its global output forecast for 2011.  The current global economy is not only a threat to the average worker, but the disaster on March 11, in Japan (the “just in time” supply center of the global economy),  showed that is bad for big businesses as well.