After sending workers home for several days, Bridgestone-Firestone tyre manufacturers across North America and Latin America are still fighting to recuperate from a cyberattack.
Despite numerous attempts for comment, the corporation has remained silent.
However, the factory's union, USW 1155L, used Facebook to inform employees that the company was still dealing with the cyberattack and that nobody needed to come in.
The union wrote on Monday, "Warren hourly teammates who are scheduled to work day shift, March 1st, will not be required to report to work (no-hit, no pay, or you have the option to take a vacation)".
The outages were originally reported on Sunday when the union posted on Facebook that Bridgestone Americas was investigating a potential source of the information security incident. The notice looked to be sent straight from the firm, rather than from the union.
The company explained, "Since learning of the potential incident in the early morning hours of February 27, we have launched a comprehensive investigation to quickly gather facts while working to ensure the security of our IT systems. Out of an abundance of caution, we disconnected many of our manufacturing and retreading facilities in Latin America and North America from our network to contain and prevent any potential impact, including those at Warren TBR Plant. First shift operations were shut down, so those employees were sent home."
"Until we learn more from this investigation, we cannot determine with certainty the scope or nature of any potential incident, but we will continue to work diligently to address any potential issues that may affect our operations, our data, our teammates, and our customers."
The firm reiterated on Tuesday evening that hourly staff scheduled to work on Wednesday will not be required to report to work.
Bridgestone Americas employs nearly 50,000 people in dozens of locations across North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
Outages affecting factories in Iowa, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Canada were reported by local news outlets across the United States.
