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A person with knowledge of the talks said G.M. was reluctant to reopen the Lordstown plant,
據談判知情人士透露，通用不愿重開洛斯敦的工廠，
but it was willing to discuss building a new battery factory in that area of Ohio as it shifts to electric vehicles.
但因其正在向電動汽車制造轉型，他們表示愿意就在俄亥俄州的這一地區新建一家電池廠展開討論。
G.M. has also expressed willingness to keep open a car plant in Detroit that had been targeted for closure, this person said.
該知情人士還透露，通用汽車還表示愿意繼續開放底特律一家原計劃關閉的汽車工廠。
The strike will immediately halt production in the United States,
罷工將導致美國的生產線立即停產，
and a prolonged stoppage could affect G.M.’s Canadian and Mexican operations,
長時間停產還可能波及到加拿大和墨西哥的通用工廠的運作，
crimping its bottom line and the fortunes of thousands of its parts suppliers.
繼而觸及到該企業的底線，以及成千上萬零部件供應商的命運。
G.M. operates 12 vehicle assembly factories in the United States and 22 parts plants.
通用汽車在美國經營著12家汽車裝配廠和22家零部件配送中心。
Workers at 12 parts distribution centers and two engineering locations are also represented by the U.A.W.
UAW代表了通用12個零部件配送中心和兩個工程事業部的員工。
Just under half of G.M.’s unionized locations are in Michigan.
加入聯合會的通用工廠中，有將近一半的工廠都位于密歇根州境內。
The rest are in six other states: Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky and New York.
其余工廠分散在六個州內，這六個州分別是俄亥俄州、印第安納州、密蘇里州、田納西州、肯塔基州和紐約州。
The company has enough inventory on dealer lots to last 77 days at the current rate of sales, according to Cox Automotive.
據考克斯汽車公司透露，按照目前的銷售節奏，該公司在經銷商處的庫存還能維持77天。
A long shutdown could prove painful for union members, who would have to get by on strike pay of $250 a week while out of work.
長期停工對聯合會成員來說可能會頗為痛苦，因為他們不上班，就要靠著250美元/周的罷工工資維生。
Any hit to G.M.’s North American profits would also lower the annual profit-sharing checks union members receive each March.
只要通用汽車在北美的利潤受到沖擊，聯合會成員每年3月都會收到的利潤分成支票的面額也會受到影響。
Those checks have averaged $11,000 over the last three years.
過去三年，這些支票的平均金額高達1.1萬美元。
“Workers will feel it immediately because if they move to strike pay, that’s miserable,”
“工人們立刻就能感覺到落差，因為如果他們選擇了罷工工資，生活會變得很悲慘，”
said Kristin Dziczek, vice president for industry, labor and economics at the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich.
密歇根州安娜堡汽車研究中心負責工業、勞工和經濟的副總裁克里斯汀·季澤克說道。
The union may also be wary of depleting its strike fund.
聯合會也可能擔心長期罷工會耗盡聯合會的罷工基金。
It is delaying talks with Ford and Fiat Chrysler while focusing on G.M.,
聯合會準備推遲與福特和菲亞特克萊斯勒的談判，全力投入到通用汽車的問題上，
a standard practice in the every-four-year talks between the U.A.W. and the Detroit automakers.
這也是全美汽車工人聯合會和底特律汽車制造商們每四年舉行一次談判時的一貫做法。
The auto industry has been transformed over the last 30 years
過去30年里，汽車工業發生了翻天覆地的變化，
as foreign automakers have built their own nonunion factories in the United States
外國汽車制造商在美國建立了他們自己的非工會工廠，
employing tens of thousands, and taken market share from Detroit’s Big Three.
雇傭了數萬名美國工人，還搶占了底特律三巨頭的市場份額。
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