GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers
摘要
通用汽车在其位于底特律的旗舰电动汽车工厂安装了约50台由日本发那科公司制造的机器人臂，用于装配线作业。此举引发工会强烈反对，因该厂仍有1300名工人在3月被临时解雇后未被召回。工会领导人指出，公司本可让部分失业工人返岗而非安装机器人。
Dozens of new robot arms have been installed at General Motors’ flagship electric vehicle factory in Detroit—even as 1,300 workers remain out of work following what was supposed to be a temporary layoff. The latest automation push has spurred union pushback over a potentially existential issue for automakers and their workers.
General Motors installed approximately 50 robot arms at GM’s Factory Zero plant in Detroit, Michigan, according to reporting by Crain’s Detroit Business. Made by the Japanese robotics company FANUC, the robots are designed to help attach various components to vehicles during the assembly line process. But leaders at United Auto Workers (UAW), the primary US union for autoworkers, reacted with anger to the new robotic presence, given how GM has not yet called back any of the workers affected by supposedly temporary layoffs in March.
More than 1,000 union members are still “laid off indefinitely,” James Cotton, president of UAW Local 22, told The Detroit News. He said that the company could bring some of those members back to work instead of installing the 50 robots.
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