数十万爱尔兰教师、医生和公务员罢工。周三的一天罢工导致爱尔兰各地公共服务陷入瘫痪，工人要求提高工资以抵消生活成本上升。
Hundreds of thousands of Irish teachers, doctors and civil servants have walked off the job. The one-day strike on Wednesday crippled public services across Ireland as workers demanded higher wages to offset the rising cost of living.
伦敦 — — 周三，数十万爱尔兰教师、医生和公务员罢工，导致全国公共服务陷入瘫痪，工人要求提高工资以抵消生活成本上升。
LONDON — Hundreds of thousands of teachers, doctors and civil servants walked off the job in Ireland on Wednesday, crippling public services across the country as workers demand higher wages to offset the rising cost of living.
由于这场一天的罢工，大多数学校、学院和大学关闭，数千次医疗预约被取消。罢工旨在施压总理米歇尔·马丁介入谈判，而谈判自六月以来一直陷入停滞。
Most schools, colleges and universities are closed and thousands of medical appointments have been canceled because of the one-day strike, which was called to pressure Prime Minister Micheál Martin to intervene in the talks, which have been stalled since June.
在都柏林马特尔医院，主要公共雇员工会福萨的负责人指责政府未能回应工人的加薪诉求。
Speaking at Mater Hospital in Dublin, the head of the main public employees union, Forsa, blamed the government for failing to address the pay demands of workers.
福萨总秘书凯文·卡利南说：“政府需要今天就全国范围内我们成员的诉求作出回应。” “他们在生活成本上面临的困难，以及与公共支出部发生信任破裂的感觉，这些都是政府现在必须正视的问题。” 爱尔兰中央统计局上周表示，截至9月的12个月内，消费者价格通胀升至4.1%，为2024年1月以来的最高水平。同期住房成本上涨9.5%，交通费用上涨7.5%。
“The government needs to respond to our members today, right across the country,” said Kevin Callinan, Forsa’s general secretary. “The struggles they’re having with the cost of living, the sense of a breach of trust that’s happened with the Department of Public Expenditure. They’re the issues that need to be faced up to by the government now.”Consumer price inflation accelerated to 4.1% in the 12 months through September, the highest rate since January 2024, Ireland’s Central Statistics Office said last week. Housing costs jumped 9.5% in the period and transportation expenses rose 7.5%.
康纳·卡罗尔周三都在邓洛盖尔圣迈克尔医院的罢工纠察线上，该医院位于都柏林南部的沿海城镇。这名医院搬运工表示，争议焦点完全在于生活成本。
Conor Carroll was on the picket line Wednesday at St. Michael’s Hospital in Dun Laoghaire, a coastal town south of Dublin. The hospital porter said that the dispute was all about the cost of living.
“每次去超市购物你都能感受到，”卡罗尔对《爱尔兰时报》说。“一切都在涨价，甚至连吃饭的成本都上涨了。而且你现在赚的钱感觉也不够用。”政府曾试图通过强调其承诺向公共部门工资追加投入12亿欧元（13.4亿美元）来避免罢工。马丁周三表示，他愿意充当“诚实的调解人”来解决薪资争议。
“Every time you go to the supermarket you feel it,” Carroll told The Irish Times. “Everything’s gone up, even the cost of eating. And whatever you’re earning doesn’t feel like enough these days.”The government had tried to head off the strike by highlighting its commitment to put an additional 1.2 billion euros ($1.34 billion) into public sector pay. Martin said Wednesday that he was open to being an “honest broker” to resolve the pay dispute.
他说，政府的预算决定为公共部门工资谈判提供了“非常坚实的基础”，并补充说他察觉到“各方都有善意”。“我认为工会和政府之间存在进行非常实质性接触的基础，我们当然会尽我们所能做一切可能的事情，”马丁说。
The government’s budget decisions provided “a very strong foundation” for public service pay talks, he said, adding that he detected “goodwill all round.”“I think the foundations are there for a very substantive engagement between unions and government, and we certainly will be doing everything we possibly can,” Martin said.