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A | 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.。 Sophie 编译六名小偷驾驶三辆车试图闯入罗托鲁瓦一家酒铺，在撞击三扇金属后门但未能成功后，他们被迫放弃了抢劫。但这对Springfield Bottle-O酒铺的老板Jasmine Singh来说，意味着又要花1000纽币的保险垫底费，而且她不得不从商店的储备金里拿出高达4000纽币用于安装护柱——这次是在店铺的后面。

B | Advertise with us Singh说，周日早上6点，一个至少有6人的团伙开着三辆车对Springfield的Bottle-O进行了撞店袭击。他们把其中一辆车开到了位于Otonga Rd上的酒铺后面的一条小巷里。监控录像显示，其中一名窃贼在他们试图撞开卷帘门时，用手机录下了袭击过程。 Singh说，他们把其中一辆车倒向了商店的卷帘门，造成的震动触发了警报，让窃贼们空手而逃。

C | Singh表示，他们很难冲破这些门，因为它外面有一道卷帘门，中间有一扇金属门，是建筑物的一部分，里面另外还有一道卷帘门。 “但他们每次都会造成损坏，维修又要花1000纽币（保险垫底费）。

D | ” 她说，他们现在别无选择，只能在商店后面安装护柱。 “这笔钱是从我们自己的口袋里支付的，是商店的现金流。

E | ” 在这家酒铺的前窗2月7日被窃贼砸了之后，Singh最近刚刚在酒铺前面的Otonga Rd的人行道上安装了更多的护柱，花费了4000纽币。警方在一份声明中表示，他们在周日早上6点09分对袭击事件做出了响应。警方说，撞向大门的汽车被遗弃在现场，而罪犯们则驾驶其他两辆车逃离。警方随后收到信息，周日凌晨，一辆汽车在Hamon Pl上被盗。

F | “我们已经对两处地点进行了现场检查，被遗弃在Otonga Rd的车辆已经拖走。警方了解到这两起事件可能有关联，目前正在进行调查，以确定并找到涉案人员。” 更多盗窃事件上周六深夜至周日凌晨，罗托鲁瓦至少发生了另外五起盗车事件：周日凌晨12点至5点20分，一辆汽车在Victoria的一处地址被盗。周日凌晨1点到4点55分之间，在Victoria的另一处地址，一辆汽车被闯入，点火装置被破坏。

G | 周日凌晨3点左右，在Hillcrest的一处地址，一辆汽车被闯入，点火装置被破坏。周日凌晨2点10分，一辆汽车在Fenton Park的一处地址被盗。周六晚上10点35分，一辆汽车在Pomare的一处地址被盗。警方表示，他们将进行调查，以查明这些事件是否与抢劫酒铺和Hamon Pl的汽车被盗案有关。目前还没有人因这些犯罪行为受到指控。相关阅读：周末生日派对变惨烈角斗场：百人群殴二死多伤！ 6名青少年开着偷来的车撞向多辆汽车，已被奥克兰警方拘捕夜间奥克兰的快餐店和民宅遭砸抢，居民被袭击，一人受伤又一起！5人持械抢劫奥克兰一家加油站，员工被威胁打击犯罪：奥克兰警方连夜出动，突击检查94个加油站奥克兰一家餐厅被盗，损失达数万纽币，老板深受打击两名男子大白天持械抢劫奥克兰酒铺，抡起斧头砍店员深夜开着偷来的汽车高速逃逸，五名奥克兰青少年被拘留奥克兰昂贵自行车被盗，提供监控照片及GPS数据后警方拒绝调查奥克兰一购物中心内珠宝店被暴力打劫，一名20岁男子逃离现场后被逮捕奥克兰夜间发生暴力入室抢劫案，4名持枪罪犯逃窜100公里后在北地被捕太猖獗！四名劫匪持斧头抢劫奥克兰加油站，员工差点爆头而亡四名蒙面罪犯手持锤子袭击奥克兰加油站店员，行业组织恳求政府紧急行动奥克兰高峰时段发生激烈追逐：逃逸车辆逆行险象环生，两人被捕奥克兰北岸大超市清晨被抢：警方出动直升机和警犬队追捕，4人被拘 700棵蓝莓树被偷摘，价值5万纽币的青铜雕塑被破坏奥克兰发生激烈群殴事件，武装警察包围了一栋房屋，一男子被捕注：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。

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