汽车工人工会主席肖恩·费恩上周的连任轻而易举。他领导这拥有40万成员的劳工组织的第二个任期可能不会那么轻松。
Auto Workers President Shawn Fain’s re-election last week was a breeze. His second term leading the 400,000-member labor group might not be as easy.
费恩在2023年成为劳工运动名人，当时他接管了UAW，并在对通用汽车（GM.N）、福特汽车（F.N）以及克莱斯勒母公司斯特兰蒂斯（STLAM.MI）进行多周罢工后赢得了创纪录的合同。
Fain became a labor-movement celebrity in 2023, when he took over the UAW and won record contracts after staging multi-week strikes against General Motors (GM.N), Ford Motor (F.N) and Chrysler-parent Stellantis (STLAM.MI).
他的下一个四年任期将面临艰巨挑战。劳工专家表示，底特律三巨头将在下一轮合同谈判中专注于削减成本。费恩还正接受联邦调查，调查内容聚焦于裙带关系的指控，并且他与监督UAW活动的联邦监督员的关系日益紧张。周二，联邦监督员发布了官方选举结果，确认费恩获胜。
His next four-year term presents tough challenges. The Detroit Three will be focused on cutting costs in the next round of contract talks, labor experts said. Fain also is the subject of a federal investigation centered on allegations of nepotism, and he has had an increasingly frayed relationship with the federal monitor overseeing UAW activities. On Tuesday, the federal monitor posted official election results, confirming Fain had won.
面对特朗普总统关税导致的成本上升以及商品价格走高，底特律汽车制造商希望削减劳动力成本，以与在欧洲、拉丁美洲及其他地区抢占市场份额的低成本中国汽车制造商竞争。
Faced with higher costs from President Donald Trump's tariffs and elevated commodity prices, the Detroit automakers want to cut labor costs to compete with low-cost Chinese automakers grabbing market share in Europe, Latin America and other regions.
“2028年与三大汽车公司的合同谈判将会更加艰难，”旧金山州立大学劳工教授约翰·洛根说。
“Contract negotiations with the Big Three in 2028 will be much tougher,” said John Logan, a labor professor at San Francisco State University.
费恩否认了中国竞争会阻止汽车公司支付比2023年更好的劳工待遇的观点。
Fain has rejected the idea that Chinese competition will prevent the auto companies from paying for better labor deals than they did in 2023.
“我们不会容忍中国在美国推动向底部竞赛，”他在周五接受路透社采访时说。“这些公司赚取巨额利润，”他谈到底特律汽车公司时说道。
“We're not going to stand for China driving a race to the bottom in America," he told Reuters in an interview on Friday. “These companies make massive profits," he said of Detroit.
费恩在斯特兰蒂斯成立前的克莱斯勒旗下工厂担任电工时开始了他的工会生涯。在最新一轮投票中，他在UAW代表的每个地区都轻松获胜。但选举前的几个月充满了动荡。
Fain started his union career working as an electrician at plants owned by Chrysler before the merger that created Stellantis. In the latest round of voting, he sailed to victory in every region represented by the UAW. But the months leading up to the election were marked by turmoil.
自夏季以来，费恩与美国政府任命监督美国汽车工人联合会（UAW）的纽约律师尼尔·巴罗夫斯基之间的紧张关系不断升级。美国司法部已启动调查，针对费恩采取行动使其未婚妻受益以及对工会高层官员进行报复的指控。
Since summer, tensions have escalated between Fain and Neil Barofsky, a New York attorney the US government appointed to oversee the UAW. The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into allegations that Fain took actions to benefit his fiancée and retaliated against top union officers.
对该工会的监督计划于2027年初结束，距开始已有六年。但如果监督员认为工会改革不充分，可延长监督期限。
Monitoring of the union is scheduled to end in early 2027, six years after it began. But the monitor could extend the oversight period if it decides that union reforms are insufficient.
费恩告诉路透社，他认为工会有望按计划结束监督，并为其团队推行的改革感到自豪。
Fain told Reuters he believes the union is on track to have the monitorship end, and he was proud of the reforms his team made.
费恩表示，紧张关系始于工会于2023年12月呼吁加沙停火之后。他在7月的一场面向会员的直播中称，巴罗夫斯基不同意工会的立场，两人曾就此进行过激烈讨论。
Fain said the tensions began after the union called for a ceasefire in Gaza in December 2023. In a July livestream to members, Fain said Barofsky disagreed with the union’s stance, and the two had a heated discussion about it.
在那次争执后不久，费恩说巴罗夫斯基开启调查，以查明工会主席是否对一名工会官员进行了报复。
Shortly after that dispute, Fain said Barofsky opened an investigation into whether the union president retaliated against a union official.
“我不是阴谋论者，但我也绝不是个十足的白痴，”费恩在7月的直播中形容监督员在激烈通话后启动调查的时间点。
“I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I’m also not a freaking idiot,” Fain said in the July livestream, describing the timing of the monitor’s investigation following the intense call.
巴罗夫斯基所在的律师事务所Jenner & Block LLP的一位发言人在6月的一份声明中表示，巴罗夫斯基“在公共服务、私人执业以及担任司法部任命的监督员等角色中，均以最高水平的专业精神、诚信和尊重行事。”在上周接受路透社采访时，费恩表示希望翻过这场公开争端，并对联邦调查会洗清他任何不当行为的嫌疑充满信心。
A spokesperson for Jenner & Block LLP, the law firm that employs Barofsky, said in a June statement that Barofsky has "acted with the highest levels of professionalism, integrity, and respect in his roles in public service, private practice, and as a DOJ-appointed monitor.”In the interview with Reuters last week, Fain said he wants to move on from the public dispute and that he was confident the federal investigation would clear him of any suspicion of wrongdoing.