Union Votes Go Against Cuts at Ford.ppt

Union Votes Go Against Cuts at Ford Background Information Words and Expression 1.Concession [n.]（让步,妥协） eg：Employers made concessions to the workers in negotiation.资方在与工人谈判中作出让步。 2. Assembly plant（装配厂） 3. Post（公布） eg：Advertisements must not be posted on a wall. 禁止招贴广告。 4. Paint oneself into a corner（把自己陷入窘境） eg：They painted themselves into a corner when the market was booming. 银行在市场繁荣时将自己推入窘境 5. Worse off （恶化） * /2009/10/28/business/28ford.html?_r=1ref=business By :07商务英语A班 1号 鲜瑶 20070311201 Many workers at the Ford Motor Company signal that they are unwilling to help the automaker cut its labor costs （劳动力支出）further, by voting against what would be the third round of concessions（让步、妥协） in the last two years. Members of at least five local chapters of the United Automobile Workers union have turned down the proposed（被提议的） changes, which include a six-year wage freeze for newly hired workers, some job-classification changes and benefits through 2015. Ford says it needs the modifications(修订） to remain competitive with General Motors and Chrysler, whose workers agreed to similar deals in the spring. Only about a third of the locals representing Ford’s 41,000 union workers had finished voting by Tuesday. At Ford’s largest assembly plant（装配厂）, 92 percent voted against the deal, according to results posted （公布） on the Local 249 Web sites. Ford had been making a case that it was doing better than General Motors and Chrysler, and as a result they have painted themselves into a corner（把他们自己陷入窘境） The U.A.W.’s president, arguing that Ford is still heavily in debt and that workers could end up worse off （恶化）if they do not agree to the deal. If ratified（批准）, the deal gives all hourly workers a $1,000 bonus（奖金）in March and assigns new products to some plants. He emphasized that the U.A.W. retained its ability to strike if Ford were to propose mor