作者：陵辛侯安 来源：原创 发布日期：08-22
一 | Sophie 编译 Golriz Ghahraman因被指控行窃而辞职。 DETROIT -- The United Auto Workers union significantly escalated its walkout against Detroit's Three automakers, shutting down Ford's largest factory and threatening Jeep maker Stellantis.In a surprise move Wednesday night, 8,700 members left their jobs at Ford’s Kentucky truck plant in Louisville.And Thursday morning, union President Shawn Fain hinted at further action against Stellantis. “Here's to hoping talks at Stellantis today are more productive than Ford yesterday,” Fain wrote on X, formerly Twitter, without saying what might happen.Ford's truck plant makes heavy-duty F-Series pickup trucks and large Ford and Lincoln SUVs, hitting the company's most lucrative products. The vehicles made at the plant generate $25 billion per year in revenue, the company said in a statement.Fain said in a statement that the union has waited long enough “but Ford hasn’t gotten the message” to bargain for a fair contract. “If they can’t understand that after four weeks, the 8,700 workers shutting down this extremely profitable plant will help them understand it,” Fain said.The strike came nearly four weeks after the union began its walkouts against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis on Sept. 15, with one assembly plant from each company. The company, however, called the strike expansion “grossly irresponsible” and said it has made strong wage and benefit offers to the union. It said the move puts about a dozen other Ford facilities at risk, as well as parts supply plants that together employ over 100,000 people.A Ford executive said the union called a meeting at the company's Dearborn, Michigan, headquarters Wednesday afternoon where Fain asked if the company had another offer. High-ranking Ford executives responded that they are working on possibly bringing electric vehicle battery plants into the UAW national contract, essentially making them unionized. But they didn't have a significantly different economic offer, the executive said. Fain was told the company put a strong offer on the table, but there wasn't a lot of room to increase it and keep it affordable for the business, the executive said.Fain responded by saying, if that's the company's best offer, “You just lost Kentucky Truck Plant,” said the executive. The meeting only lasted about 15 minutes, he said. In a video, Fain said the union moved because Ford didn't change its offer. “We've been very patient working with the company on this,” he said. “They have not met expectations, they're not even coming to the table on it.”The escalation against Ford shows that Fain is trying to increase pressure on the company, said Marick Masters, a business professor at Wayne State University who follows labor issues.But Ford and the other automakers have made concessions and raised wage offers, he said. The companies, he said, “may have reached their resistance points to varying degrees.” Executives, he said, have bottom line positions they can’t cross in terms of staying competitive with other automakers.Fain, Masters said, likely is testing how far he needs to push Ford before going to “full throttle,” by taking all 57,000 Ford members out on strike.The union’s move doesn’t leave him optimistic for a quick end to the strikes, Masters said. “I think the issues that remain on the table are quite thorny,” he said, pointing to union demands that all workers get defined benefit pensions and health insurance when they retire.The UAW expanded its strikes on Sept. 22, adding 38 GM and Stellantis parts warehouses. Assembly plants from Ford and GM were added the week after that. The Kentucky strike brings to 33,700 the number of workers on strike against the three automakers.Thus far, the union has decided to target a small number of plants from each company rather than have all 146,000 UAW members at the automakers go on strike at the same time.Last week, the union reported progress in the talks and decided not to add any more plants. This came after GM agreed to bring joint-venture electric vehicle battery factories into the national master contract, almost assuring that the plants will be unionized.Battery plants are a major point of contention in the negotiations. The UAW wants those plants to be unionized to assure jobs and top wages for workers who will be displaced by the industry’s ongoing transition to electric vehicles.Since the start of the strike, the three Detroit automakers have laid off roughly 4,800 workers at factories that are not among the plants that have been hit by the UAW strikes.The companies say the strikes have forced them to impose those layoffs. They note that the job cuts have occurred mainly at factories that make parts for assembly plants that were closed by strikes.The UAW rejects that argument. It contends that the layoffs are unjustified and were imposed as part of the companies' pressure campaign to persuade UAW members to accept less in negotiations with automakers. The factories affected by layoffs are in six states: Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Indiana and New York. Sam Fiorani, an analyst with AutoForecast Solutions, a consulting firm, said he thinks the layoffs reflect a simple reality: The automakers are losing money because of the strikes. By slowing or idling factories that are running below their capacities because of strike-related parts shortages, Fiorani said, the companies can mitigate further losses.“It doesn’t make sense to keep running at 30% or 40% of capacity when it normally runs at 100%,” he said. Striking workers are receiving $500 a week from the union’s strike pay fund. In some states, laid-off workers could qualify for state unemployment aid, which, depending on a variety of circumstances, could be less or more than $500 a week. Fiorani said that as the strikes widen, more workers will likely be laid off at non-striking plants. Separate companies that manufacture parts for the automakers are likely to have laid off workers but might not report them publicly, said Patrick Anderson, CEO of the Anderson Economic Group in Lansing, Michigan. A survey of parts supply companies by a trade association called MEMA Original Equipment Suppliers found that 30% of members have laid off workers and that more than 60% expect to start layoffs in mid-October.。 她说：“能够担任国会议员，我感到非常荣幸。我为自己在人权和外交事务方面的倡导工作感到自豪，尤其为那些令有关捐款和海外投票的选举法规得到实际改进的活动而感到自豪。” Advertise with us 这位绿党议员表示，她的心理健康受到了议员工作压力的“严重影响”。 “这导致我的行为方式完全不符合我的性格。
二 | 我并不是在为自己的行为找借口，但我确实希望解释一下。” Ghahraman将立即辞去国会议员职务。 “我辜负了很多人，非常抱歉！”她说。 Ghahraman从心理健康的角度解释她出了什么问题。 “人们理所当然地期望他们选出的代表有最高的行为标准。我未能达到这个标准。我很抱歉。这是我无法解释的行为，因为它在任何方面都是不理智的。在经过医学评估后，我意识到自己不太好。” “我看的心理健康专家说，我最近的行为与近来发生的导致紧张反应的事件，以及与以前未被认识到的创伤有关。” “我请求人们给予我康复所需的空间和隐私。我暂时不会再发表评论。” Ghahraman面临着巨大的政治压力，此前她被指控在Ponsonby地区Blake St的精品店Scotties Boutique两次行窃，还有第三起指控——来自惠灵顿的Cre8iveworx店。 其中一起事件发生在12月23日，但后来发现，几周前还发生了另一起事件。警方正在调查发生在12月23日的事件。 绿党联合党魁的最新声明 绿党联合党魁Marama Davidson和James Shaw表示，Ghahraman显然处于“极度痛苦的状态”，并支持她辞职的决定。 他们在一份联合声明中说：“绿党议员的公共行为应保持高标准。” “我们看到，Ghahraman正处于极度痛苦的状态。她已经承担了责任并道歉。” “我们支持她辞职的决定。” 绿党名单上排名下一位的是惠灵顿前市长Celia Wade-Brown。
三 | Ghahraman的辞职意味着Wade-Brown可以获得该席位，如果她选择接受的话。 Davidson和Shaw表示，Ghahraman为她的社区“不懈地工作”，并提到她在国会中倡导了人权、外交政策和选举方面的改革。 “她的政治成就是显著的。没有什么能贬低她的工作，我们知道她将来会继续支持这些社区。” “看到Ghahraman在这种情况下离开，我们深感遗憾，我们祝她未来一切顺利。” 鉴于警方的调查仍在进行中，两位联合党魁不愿对Ghahraman的入店行窃指控发表评论。 Ghahraman尚未被起诉，但警方表示，他们在12月23日收到了一份据称在精品店行窃的报告。 相关阅读： 绿党议员涉嫌第三起偷窃事件！这次发生在惠灵顿 涉嫌偷窃的绿党议员，今天回新西兰了，结果…… 毁三观！新西兰知名国会议员第二起偷窃事件曝光！党魁发布声明！ 第二起商店行窃事件被披露，绿党议员四面楚歌 知名绿党议员被指控行窃后保持沉默，政治评论员称很难重建声誉 【先驱自媒】震惊！新西兰国会议员被指控在奥克兰精品店行窃！ 注：本文为编译/原创，欢迎转发分享；但严禁复制等未经授权的非法使用。违反上述声明者，本网将追究其相关法律责任。使用授权请联系[email protected]。 chineseherald.co.nz All Rights Reserved 版权所有 (责编：Sophie) 相关内容 奥克兰东部铁路线重新开放，但西线和南线马上要开始施工了 绿党议员涉嫌第三起偷窃事件！这次发生在惠灵顿 涉嫌偷窃的绿党议员，今天回新西兰了，结果…… 一海外游客在公路上逆行10分钟后，迎面撞上一辆汽车，被控危险驾驶 2023年有多少条蛇溜过了新西兰边境？ 疫情通报：病例数上升！过去一周新西兰新增8040例 本周新西兰大部将出现降雨，奥克兰今天下午有大雨 奥克兰的公共交通票价下个月将上涨！。
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