ఆటో సంక్షోభం: మరో 1,225 మంది ఉద్యోగులపై వేటు - ఉద్యోగాల కోత

ఆటో మొబైల్ దిగ్గజం జనరల్ మోటార్స్.. భారీగా ఉద్యోగాల కోత విధిస్తోంది. సంస్థ ఉద్యోగులు చేస్తున్న సమ్మె రెండో వారానికి చేరిన నేపథ్యంలో.. మరో 1,225 మందిని విధుల నుంచి తొలగించింది.

జనరల్ మోటార్స్

Published : Sep 24, 2019, 2:33 PM IST

Updated : Oct 1, 2019, 7:50 PM IST

ప్రముఖ ఆటోమొబైల్ సంస్థ జనరల్ మోటార్స్ 1,225 మంది కార్మికులను విధుల నుంచి తప్పించింది. కెనడా, అమెరికాలో కార్మికుల సమ్మె రెండో వారానికి చేరిన నేపథ్యంలో ఈ నిర్ణయం తీసుకుంది.

కార్మికుల సమ్మెతో.. మొరైన్, ఒహాయోలో డీమాక్స్ ఇంజన్ ప్లాట్లో 525 మందిని తప్పించింది. డీమాక్స్ ప్లాంట్ జనరల్ మోటార్స్కు అనుబంధ సంస్థ. ఇందులో 60 శాతం వాటా జనరల్ మోటార్స్కు.. 40 శాతం వాటా ఇసూజూ సంస్థకు ఉంది.

కెనడాలోని మరో ప్లాంట్లో 700 మంది కార్మికులను తాత్కాలిక సెలవులపై పంపినట్లు జనరల్ మోటార్స్ ఓ ప్రకటనలో తెలిపింది. ఇటీవలే కెనడాలోని ఒసావాలో ఉన్న కార్లు, ట్రక్కుల ప్లాంట్ లో పని చేసే 2,000 మంది ఉద్యోగులకు తాత్కాలిక సెలవులివ్వడం గమనార్హం.

అమెరికాలోని..31 ప్లాంట్లలో పని చేస్తున్న 50,000 మంది ఉద్యోగులు గత వారం సమ్మెబాట పట్టారు. ఈ కారణంగా గత పదేళ్లలో ఎన్నడూ లేనంతగా ఉత్పత్తి పడిందిదని జనరల్ మోటార్స్ తెలిపింది. ఈ నేపథ్యంలో ఉద్యోగాల కోతకు దిగింది జనరల్ మోటార్స్.

చర్చలు విఫలం..

జనరల్ మోటార్స్, యునైటెడ్ ఆటో వర్కర్స్ సంఘం మధ్య గత వారం చర్చలు జరిగాయి. కార్మికులతో కుదుర్చకున్న నాలుగేళ్ల ఒప్పందం ముగిసిన నేపథ్యంలో దాన్ని పునరుద్ధరించాలనే అంశంపై సాగిన సంప్రదింపులు ఫలవంతం కాలేదు.

ఇదీ చూడండి: పెట్రో ధరలు మరింత పైకి.. నేడు ఎంత పెరిగాయంటే!

చర్చలు విఫలం..

ఇదీ చూడండి: పెట్రో ధరలు మరింత పైకి.. నేడు ఎంత పెరిగాయంటే!

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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: This is the second in the Associated Press series of in-depth, multimedia stories that will chronicle over the 12 weeks examples of intense efforts being waged around the world to save or revive ecosystems, reversing some of humankind's most destructive past actions and preserving vital natural habitats on Earth. The series asks: What can be saved? ++
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Humboldt glacier, Venezuela - 16 April 2019
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1. Various drone shots of Humboldt glacier ++MUTE++
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Sierra Nevada de Mérida, Venezuela - 26 May 2019
2. Various of scientist Luis Daniel Llambí climbing towards glacier
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Sierra Nevada de Mérida, Venezuela - 23-26 May 2019
3. Various of scientist Alejandra Melfo climbing
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Sierra Nevada de Mérida, Venezuela - 23 May 2019
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Daniel Llambí, ecologist at the Institute of Environmental and Ecological Sciences (ICAE), University of the Andes, Venezuela:
"The fundamental idea of the project will be to understand what happens once Venezuela's last glacier withdraws and how life will colonise the highlands of Sierra Nevada of Mérida, which practically have not been studied at all ."
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Sierra Nevada de Mérida, Venezuela - 23-26 May 2019
5. Team heading toward glacier, mountain peak visible through clouds
6. Various of scientists climbing mountain during expedition to reach the Humboldt Glacier
7. Various of scientists cheering as they spot the Humboldt glacier
Mérida, Venezuela - 27 March 2019
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alejandra Melfo, physics PhD and physics teacher at University of the Andes, Venezuela:
"The glacier will disappear and we have to be there when it does. The páramos (zone between 3,000 and 4,500 meters of elevation in the Andes) are heating up, climate change is real and we have to document it. We have to be there."
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Sierra Nevada de Mérida, Venezuela - 23-26 May 2019
9. Various of scientists trekking towards glacier
10. Wide of edge of glacier
11. Scientist studying plant life
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Gavidia, Venezuela - 21 February 2019
12. Close up of the frailejón plant
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Sierra de la Culata National Park, Venezuela - 19 February 2019
13. Various drone shots of scientists in the páramos ++MUTE++
14. Drone shot of scientists in their van going up mountain ++MUTE++
15. GoPro footage of ecologist Luis Daniel Llambí driving
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Piedras Blancas, Venezuela - 19 February 2019
16. Various of Luis Daniel Llambí recording data on temperature
Mérida, Venezuela - 18 February 2019
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Daniel Llambí, ecologist at the Institute of Environmental and Ecological Sciences (ICAE), University of the Andes, Venezuela:
"It's witnessing changes that are occurring in the highest areas of the country and if we don't do it, no one will know that many of those species that are unique to the planet may be about do disappear without anyone knowing."
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Piedras Blancas, Venezuela - 19 February 2019
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18. Drone shot of scientists on Piedras Blancas ++MUTE++
19. Drone shot on páramo area++MUTE++
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Mérida, Venezuela - 27 March 2019
20. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alejandra Melfo, physics PhD and physics teacher at University of the Andes:
"We can't wait until the situation in the country improves to carry on with the study, we have to do it now, we have to go on."
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Urena, Tachira State, Venezuela - 23 February 2019
21. Clashes between protesters and security forces who fire tear gas and protesters hurling rocks and glass bottles
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Cúcuta, Venezuela/Colombia border - 23 February 2019
22. Venezuelan opposition supporters clashing with Venezuelan National guard on the bridge connecting Colombia to Venezuela
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Mérida, Venezuela - 23 February 2019
23. Venezuelan opposition supporters wave Venezuelan flag during protest
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Mérida, Venezuela - 18 February 2019
24. Wide of University of the Andes' Faculty of Science
25. Close of ceiling lights flickering
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Mérida, Venezuela - 27 March 2019
26. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alejandra Melfo, physics PhD and physics teacher at University of the Andes:
"The Faculty of Science is a ghost of what it used to be. Every time you go there there is the possibility of there not being light, or gas for the labs."
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Mérida, Venezuela - 20 February 2019
27. Various of scientist working inside dark lab
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Mérida, Venezuela - 6 April 2019
28. Various of Alejandra Melfo's house during blackout
Mérida, Venezuela - 18 February 2019
29. Various of scientist and student Mariana Cárdenas rubbing candle wax in her boot
30. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mariana Cárdenas, scientist from Central University of Venezuela:
"Yesterday we were doing fieldwork in the Páramo near a wetland and a lot of water leaked into my feet and they got wet. Tomorrow we´re out on the field again, so I'm waterproofing my boots."
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Sierra Nevada de Mérida, Venezuela - 23-24 May 2019
31. Scientists at the base of the Humboldt glacier looking at a map
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Mérida, Venezuela - 23 February 2019
32. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alejandra Melfo, physics PhD and physics teacher at University of the Andes:
"As a scientist, you can't wait and abandon your research and say, 'I'll suspend it and start again in ten years, I won't do this now and I'll pick it up later.' You have to have continuity."
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Sierra Nevada de Mérida, Venezuela - 23-24 May 2019
33. Luis Daniel Llambí walking up toward glacier
34. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Daniel Llambí, ecologist at the Institute of Environmental and Ecological Sciences (ICAE), University of the Andes, Venezuela:
"Temperatures are rising, and vegetation is slowly colonising. There's a race going on between global warming and the vegetation's ability to colonise these high areas. So the high areas of Mérida's mountain range should be number one priority for conservation."
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Humboldt glacier, Venezuela - 16 April 2019
35. Drone shot of glacier ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
A hardy team of scientists in Venezuela is determined to transcend the political and economic turmoil to record what happens as the country's last glacier vanishes.
While most of the planet's ice is stored in the polar regions, there also are glaciers in some mountainous regions of the tropics - primarily in South America.
Once the Humboldt glacier disappears, Venezuela will be the first country in South America to lose all its glaciers.
Monitoring it depends on continuous visits, notes Luis Daniel Llambí, a mountain ecologist at the University of the Andes in Mérida.
"The fundamental idea of the project will be to understand what happens once Venezuela's last glacier withdraws and how life will colonise the highlands of Sierra Nevada of Mérida, which practically have not been studied at all," said Llambí.
Temperatures are warming faster at the Earth's higher elevations than in lowlands, and scientists predict that the glacier - an ice sheet in the Andes Mountains - could be gone within two decades.
Even in the best of circumstances, it's no easy trek from the small mountain town of Mérida to the ice sheet perched within Venezuela's Sierra Nevada National Park at nearly 16,500 feet (5,000 meters) above sea level.
Blackouts shut off the refrigerators where the scientists keep their lab samples.
Gas shortages mean they sometimes have to work from home.
They even reuse sheets of paper to record field data because fresh supplies are so scarce, or waterproof their worn-out old boots using burnt candle wax.
The deepening crisis in Venezuela since the death of former president Hugo Chávez in 2013 has transformed even simple tasks into immense hurdles.
Perhaps the hardest toll has been watching many of their colleagues and students leave, joining the more than 4 million people who have fled Venezuela's political upheaval in recent years.
Alejandra Melfo, a physics PhD and physics teacher at University of the Andes, says those left are determined to carry on with their research.
"As a scientist, you can't wait and abandon your research and say, 'I'll suspend it and start again in ten years, I won't do this now and I'll pick it up later.' You have to have continuity," she said.
The Institute of Environmental and Ecological Sciences at the University of the Andes was founded 50 years ago, in 1969.
Scientists there see themselves as custodians of long-term data monitoring how temperatures and plant life are changing in the region, including in the Andean ecosystem known as the Páramos - a mist-covered mountain grassland that lies between the top of the treeline and the bottom of the glacier.
On the rocks left behind when the glacier retreats, the scientists think that a new ecosystem resembling the Páramos may eventually begin to develop.
But there are many questions still to answer: Will it take decades to form new soil? Can plant and animal species that thrive at lower elevations also survive further upslope? Will they be able to adapt to continually changing temperatures?
"There's a race going on between global warming and the vegetation's ability to colonise these high areas, so the high areas of Merida's mountain range should be number one priority for conservation," said Llambí.
This Associated Press series was produced in partnership with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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