Ford CEO says: We are in deep trouble when you compare us to China, because …

福特CEO表示：与中国对比后，我们陷入了严重困境，原因在于……

Ford Motor company CEO Jim Farley recently shared his thoughts on America’s labour future. He revealed that the company is struggling to fill around 5,000 skilled-mechanic roles despite offering salaries around $120,000. Now once again, Farley has said that the realm crises facing America is the shortage of trade workers. In an appearance on the Office Hours: Business Edition podcast, Farley issued a warning that the US is dangerously behind countries like China when it comes with building and sustaining essential workforce. Farley didn’t mince words: “We are in deep trouble when you compare us to China,” he said, pointing to the lack of skilled labor across critical sectors. According to him, more than 1 million jobs are currently sitting empty in emergency services, trucking, plumbing, factory work, and other trades.

Farley stressed that this shortage is not just about filling jobs, but it is about safeguarding the country’s ability to function in times of crises. He also argued that skilled traders are the backbone of the US economy and national resilience, but still US is failing to invest in training and education to replenish this workforce

Farley’s grandfather who worked on Ford’s assembly line, has also been vocal about the need to rebuild the pipeline for blue collar workers. “Those hardworking jobs made our country what it is,” he said. “We do not have trade schools. We are not investing in educating a next generation… of people like my grandfather who had nothing, who built a middle-class life and a future for his family.”

福特汽车公司 CEO 吉姆・法利近期就美国劳动力的未来发表了看法。他透露，尽管开出了约 12 万美元的年薪，公司仍难以填补近 5000 个熟练技工岗位的空缺。如今，法利再次指出，美国面临的关键危机是技术工人短缺。在《办公时间：商业版》播客节目中，他警告称，在培养和维持核心劳动力方面，美国已危险地落后于中国等国家。法利直言不讳：“与中国对比后，我们陷入了严重困境。” 他指出，关键行业普遍存在熟练劳动力缺口。据他透露，目前急救服务、卡车运输、管道维修、工厂作业等多个技术行业，尚有超过 100 万个岗位无人问津。

法利强调，这种短缺不仅是填补岗位空缺的问题，更关乎保障国家在危机时期的正常运转能力。他还表示，技术工人是美国经济和国家韧性的支柱，但美国仍未加大培训和教育投入，以补充这一劳动力群体。

法利的祖父曾在福特的装配线上工作，他也多次强调需要重建蓝领工人的培养体系。“正是这些辛勤的工作造就了今天的美国，” 他说，“我们没有足够的职业学校，也没有投入资源培养下一代…… 像我祖父那样白手起家、靠勤劳打拼出中产阶级生活并为家人创造未来的人，现在越来越难涌现了。”

This is the only conviction which led Ford to become the first major automaker to ratify union agreements during recent labour negotiations in both the US and Canada. “I’m so proud of us,” Farley said. “We got rid of the lower tier, paid everyone the same. Now those people have a career at Ford like my grandfather.”

Farley also shared his thoughts on how the pandemic exposed the cracks present in the wage system. He said that many workers told him that they were juggling between multiple jobs in order to make the ends meet. In response to this, Ford altogether eliminated its two-tier wage structure and gave employees a clear path to financial stability, which Farley think is important for workforce rebuilding.

Farley also emphasised that this not just the problem of Ford. He mentioned that the solution to this lies in public-private cooperation, education reform and cultural respect for manual work. “If we work together like we always have in America… and we get after this with the government, with education… I think we can solve this. But we have a lot of work to do.”

正是基于这一坚定信念，福特成为近期美加两国劳资谈判中首家批准工会协议的主流汽车制造商。“我为我们感到无比自豪，”法利表示，“我们取消了薪资低层级制度，给所有员工同薪待遇。现在这些人能在福特拥有稳定职业，就像我祖父当年那样。”

法利还谈及疫情如何暴露了薪资体系中的漏洞。他说，很多工人告诉他，为了维持生计，他们不得不身兼数职。对此，福特彻底废除了双层薪资结构，为员工铺设了清晰的财务稳定之路——法利认为，这对劳动力队伍的重建至关重要。

法利还强调，这绝非福特一家的问题。他指出，解决之道在于公私部门合作、教育改革以及对体力劳动的文化尊重。“如果我们能像美国历来那样携手合作……再联合政府、教育界共同发力……我相信我们能解决这个问题。但我们还有大量工作要做。”

以下是印度时报读者的评论：

Bhakt Slayer
You anti-Christian, anti-America Jim Farley. You are trying to defame Trumpji. Trumpji has a clear vision for a 'New America', free of corruption and full of development and urban-naxals and tukde tukde gang member like Jim Farley can't digest that. Trumpji works tirelessly, often 18-20 hours a day, purely for the nation. This dedication is unmatched. China, Democrats and Soros has paid Jim Farley to speak publicly against Trumpji. Jim Farley should be charged with sedition and put in jail immediately.

吉姆·法利，你这个反基督教、反美国的家伙！你就是想诋毁特朗普先生。特朗普先生对“新美国”有着明确愿景——没有腐败、全面发展，而像你这样的城市纳萨尔派分子、分裂主义团伙成员根本无法接受这一点。特朗普先生工作起来不知疲倦，每天经常忙18到20个小时，纯粹是为了国家。这份奉献精神无人能及。中国、民 主党人和索罗斯肯定收买了你，让你公开抨击特朗普先生。吉姆·法利应该以叛国罪被起诉，立刻关进监狱。

Pratik Sinha
Bwahahahaha

哈哈

Janardan Raval
Just talk and lecture to world do not work stop anti activity in other country and killing of ppl by war u fix your backyard fast or you lost the game as world is changed and understand well so soon power and economic shift will destroy all old dirty game plan ppl are wake up ans smart now

别光对全世界说教却不做事！停止在其他国家搞破坏活动，别再通过战争杀戮无辜民众了。赶紧收拾好自己的烂摊子，否则你就输定了。世界已经变了，大家都看得很清楚。很快，权力和经济格局的转移会粉碎所有陈旧肮脏的阴谋，现在人们都觉醒了，也变聪明了。

Buddy Shape
It is their government who does it not him its like blaming you but not your government.

这是他们政府的所作所为，不是他个人的问题。这就像责怪你，却不责怪你的政府一样没道理。

Shaleen Mathur
Make Ford cars in India and export to the world. Made in India Suzuki, Mercedez selling globally as are Mahindra and Hyundai.

福特应该在印度生产汽车，然后出口到全世界。印度制造的铃木、奔驰，还有马恒达和现代，都在全球畅销呢。

Rashmi Ma
Donald Trump is only accelerating the decline of US.

唐纳德·特朗普只是在加速美国的衰落。

Vikky Deniel
His President is the reason for their current situation.

他们现在的处境，罪魁祸首是他们的总统。

Bhupinder Pal Singh
As per RSS and BJP, India has become Vishwaguru, then how come China best the US?

按照国民志愿服务团（RSS）和人民党（BJP）的说法，印度已经是“世界导师”了，那中国怎么还能超越美国呢？

Guest
India is also facing the same crisis. Every educated person in India wants to have a white collar job. No economy can generate that many white collar jobs. As a result unemployment among educated people is higher than their lesser educated peers who are working in blue collar jobs. India needs to build its blue collar job pipeline too. Manufacturing requires more skills than a desk job.

印度也面临着同样的危机。印度每个受过教育的人都想找一份白领工作，但没有哪个经济体能创造出这么多白领岗位。结果就是，受过高等教育的人的失业率，比那些从事蓝领工作、学历较低的同龄人还高。印度也需要建立蓝领工人的培养体系。制造业所需的技能，可比办公室工作要多得多。

Mark Boyer
Pay for the tools. Give us 2 consecutive days off. Pay us straight time and overtime instead of rack time. Pay for our ASE. Pay for our medical...Then we might think about putting in an application. Mechanics is the ONLY job/ career that's still in the 1920's as far as wages, work, and benefits. I got out of it in 2007 when I needed a laptop to program a windows motor with an ip address for the ecu. I'm done forever. Bring back points, distributors and ease of repair. Stop piling 1200 pounds of insulation inside the engine bay so we can actually see/work on it.

工具费用得公司承担。给我们连续两天的休息日。按正常工时和加班工时付薪，别搞什么累计工时制。支付我们的汽车维修技师认证（ASE）费用。承担我们的医疗费，这样我们才可能考虑申请这份工作。就工资、工作模式和福利而言，机械师是唯一还停留在20世纪20年代的职业。2007年我就转行不干了——当时我需要用笔记本电脑，通过IP地址给汽车的电子控制单元（ECU）编程一台车窗电机。我这辈子都不会再做这行了。把分电器、点火线圈这些好修的零件带回来吧！别在发动机舱里塞满1200磅的隔热材料，让我们至少能看清、能下手维修啊。

schemp
He’s not saying he needs Indians to fill the jobs. Americans need to fill the jobs. He’s not being honest about the mechanics jobs though. There’s millions of Americans who would love a $120,000 a year mechanic job but they won’t train anyone or help anyone pay for training or buy the tools needed. Not only that but they don’t pay that much for entry level. More like half that. Takes 20 years to get to $120,000 a year. They pay by the jobs recommended labor hours which are impossible to do because the vehicles are designed terribly and you have to take the whole thing apart to get to anything. You end up working 12 hours and getting paid for 4. That’s why nobody wants those jobs.

他不是说需要印度人来填补这些岗位，而是需要美国人自己来做。不过他对机械师这份工作的描述一点都不诚实。有数百万美国人都愿意做年薪12万美元的机械师，但公司既不提供培训，也不帮忙支付培训费或工具费。而且入门级薪资根本没那么高，顶多只有一半。要熬20年才能拿到年薪12万美元。他们按工作推荐工时付薪，可这根本不可能完成——因为汽车设计得太糟糕了，要修一个零件得把整个东西都拆开。结果就是你干了12个小时，却只拿到4个小时的工资。这就是为什么没人愿意做这些工作。

Dr Watson
You guys created the skills shortage. And then exacerbated it by selling only high end gas vehicles and EVs when the buyer was asking for economy gas models. Meanwhile quietly pocketed the billions handed out by Biden.

是你们自己造成了技能短缺。然后呢，消费者想要经济型燃油车，你们却只卖高端燃油车和电动车，让情况变得更糟。与此同时，还悄悄把拜登政府发放的数十亿美元补贴揣进了自己腰包。

pavani international
Ford owner always loves India, and indian culture.Training always boosts company economy
Check with unskilled workers

福特的老板一直很喜欢印度和印度文化。培训总能促进公司经济发展

可以从非技术工人开始培训试试。

Mkr
Ford is concerned as very few people want to join them. So they are promoting blue colored job skilling program as movability will be low there.

福特很担心，因为没多少人愿意加入他们。所以他们才推广蓝领技能培训项目——因为蓝领岗位的人员流动性低啊。

Srinivasa Jayadev
yeah...... Trump is going to better the situation by throwing everyone out of the country.

呵呵，特朗普打算把所有人都赶出美国，以此来改善现状吗？

User
Mr.president , governors all focus in training high talent ignoring the foundation

总统先生、各位州长，你们都把精力放在培养高端人才上，却忽视了基础蓝领人才的培养。

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