Aingoda maawa mashoma ari pamubhedha waamai vake vakanga vava kufa.
Asi masabhuku emukadzi uyu wepaTwin Rivers Paper kuMadawaska, Maine, akashaya tsika ndokumumanikidza kuenda kuchigayo nenguva yakawedzerwa kunyangwe raive zuva rake rekuzorora.
Inenge awa nehafu mukuchinja kunosungirwa, amai vomukadzi wacho vakafa. Akasiya chigayo achishungurudzika, achishandiswa neindasitiri inoenderera mberi kuramba zvinodiwa nevashandi zvehupenyu hwebasa.
Iye zvino, vashandi vari kurwisana zvakanyanya kupfuura nakare kose kuti vagumise kubatwa zvisina kunaka uku. Vari kurwisana - patafura yekudyira uye kumuzinda wehurumende - vachipokana nehutsinye hwekumanikidzirwa kwemaawa ekuwedzera izvo zvinonetsa mhuri kusvika pakuparara nekuisa hupenyu panjodzi.
"Zvechokwadi zvakakonzera kushungurudzika kukuru paguyo," akadaro David Hebert, mukuru wezvemari uye aimbova purezidhendi weUnited Steelworkers (USW) Local 291, mumwe wevatatu veUSW vemo pamwe chete vachimiririra vashandi ve360 paTwin Rivers.
Nhengo dzeUSW dzakagara dzakanyevera makambani emapepa nezve kudiwa kwekuwedzera kuhaya uye kudzidziswa kuchengetedza zvivako zvinoshanda zvakachengeteka uye zvinobudirira. Asi vamwe vashandirwi vakasarudza kuramba vachishanda vanhu kusvika papfupa.
Vashandi paTwin Rivers, semuenzaniso, vanoshanda shanduko yemaawa gumi nemaviri. Pamusoro pazvo, kuzadza hurongwa, imwe neimwe inogona kunyorerwa imwezve 12-awa yekuchinja mwedzi wega wega zvisinei nekuti vanoda mamwe maawa.
Asi zvinowedzera kutonyanya.
Hebert nevamwe vaanoshanda navo vakatarisanawo nemukana wekuva neshifiti yemaawa gumi nemaviri yakawedzerwa nemaawa matanhatu enguva yakawandisa inosungirwa, pasina yambiro kana kufanozivisa, rinenge zuva ripi neripi rinosarudzwa nevakuru.
Uye vanowanzomanikidzwa kudhonza akawanda maawa gumi nemasere musvondo, kunyanya kana kutonhora kwechando uye mwaka wefuruu zvinowedzera kusashanda kwekambani nemaune. Vazhinji venhengo dzemubatanidzwa uyu vanofamba maminetsi makumi mana nemashanu kana kupfuura kuenda neimwe neimwe, zvichireva kuti vanongowana maawa mashoma ekurara panguva.
"Kune mamwe mazuva apo vanhu vanombomira kufema pakupera kweshifiti yavo," akatsanangura kudaro Hebert, achicherekedza vashandi vanowanzoziva nezvenguva yekumanikidzirwa chete kana vagadzirira kudzokera kumba.
Mushandi uyo akafirwa namai vake, somuenzaniso, akaziva pakupera kweshifiti yemaawa 18 kuti aifanira kushuma zuva raitevera nokuda kwemaawa okuwedzera.
Kunyange muenzaniso iwoyo uchinyanya kurwadza, vashandi vepepa kuMaine vanosangana nemarwadzo avo pachavo kana zvirongwa zvisingafungidzike zvichivasiya vasingakwanisi kuronga nemhuri dzavo kana kuvamanikidza kurovha kupedza zvidzidzo, kupemberera zuva rekuzvarwa, kuungana kwezororo, kana zvimwe zviitiko zvavangatarisira. kupinda.
โMhuri ndicho chikonzero chega chatinopinda munzvimbo idzi. Ndinodawo kupedza nguva navo, "akadaro Justin Shaw, purezidhendi weUSW Local 9, inomiririra vashandi veSappi's Somerset Mill muSkowhegan.
"Une vanhu vazhinji vanoshanda mazuva manomwe pasvondo," vamwe vachidiwa kuti vatore maawa makumi maviri nemana pane imwe nguva, Shaw akadaro. "Dai taive nemazinga evashandi ari nani, tingadai tisina vanhu vanoshanda maawa anotyisa."
Kunze kwenhamo inodiwa paupenyu hwemhuri, nguva yakawedzerwa yakawandisa inowedzera ngozi muindasitiri inoisa vashandi kumakemikari ane ngozi, michina inokurumidza kufamba, zvinwiwa zvinopisa zvikuru, uye mapepa makuru.
"Zvinongotora chikamu chechipiri kurasikirwa nemunwe, ruoko, kana hupenyu," Shaw akadaro, achiyambira kuti kuneta kwakanyanya kunoisawo vashandi panjodzi pakufamba kuenda nekudzoka kuchigayo.
"Ndave nemotokari dzakawanda dzekuenda kumba dzandisingayeuke inopfuura hafu yerwendo. Tave nevanhu vazhinji mugomba kana mota dzakaparara vachiedza kuita zvinodiwa, "Shaw akaudza vamiriri vemitemo muna Chivabvu.
Shaw nedzimwe nhengo dzeUSW vakapupura vachitsigira mutemo, inotsigirwa neMutungamiriri weSeneti yenyika Troy Jackson, iyo ine chinangwa chekuti vashandirwi vazvidavirire.
Bhiri racho raizoita ganhurira nguva yakawedzerwa inosungirwa isingapfuuri maawa maviri pazuva uye inoda kuti vashandirwi vape chiziviso chevhiki vasati varaira mamwe maawa kana kushandura hurongwa hwevashandi.
Mutemo unoisa zvivharo pakuzvidira overtime. Uyewo hazvingashande kunjodzi dzechokwadi, dzakadai seapo chigayo chinoda mamwe maoko kudzivirira โngozi yekukurumidza kuupenyu kana pfuma.โ
Asi zvaizobatsira kumisa kupambwa kwehupenyu hwevashandi iko zvino kwave kuitika nekuda kwekutadza kweindasitiri kuhaya vanhu vakakwana kuti vashande-dambudziko. Jackson anotsanangura se "zvisina kuchengetedzeka" uye "zvisina kunaka."
Nhengo dzeMubatanidzwa dzinoramba dzichikurudzira shanduko patafura yekutaurirana. Vashandi vari kusundidzira ese ari maviri Twin Rivers neSappi, semuenzaniso, kugadzira madziva evashandi vane basa rekuzadza panodiwa pane yakapihwa shanduko.
Aya anodaidzwa kuti "madziva ekugovana" akabvisa nguva yekuwedzera yekumanikidza panzvimbo yeHuhtamaki muWaterville, uko vashandi vaimbofanira kuisa maawa akawanda zvekuti vamwe vakarara mumotokari dzavo kwete kuenda kumba, akadaro Lee Drouin, purezidhendi weUSW Local 449.
Drouin akayeuka kuti mutungamiri weUSW akaenda kuFinland, dzimbahwe rekambani, ku kutarisana nemukuru mukuru uye jekesa kuti nhengo dzemubatanidzwa hadzisi kuzoshivirira nguva yakawandisa zvakare. Zvino, angangoita makore mana apfuura, nhengo dzeNzvimbo 449 dzakatevera nekutaurirana nezvemakondirakiti avo.
"Hapana chakakwana, asi chiri kushanda zvakanaka," Drouin akadaro. โInoita kuti michina irambe ichishanda, uye inoita kuti vanhu vasanyorerwe. Inoita zvinhu zviviri zvatinofanira kuita.โ
Drouin akati mamwe makambani emapepa anofanirwawo kuziva kuti shanduko yakakosha kuvashandi asi ichivabatsirawo.
"Zvigayo zvinofanirwa kunzwisisa, izvi hazvisi kuzoenda," akadaro, achitaura nezvezvinodiwa nevashandi kuti vabatwe zvakanaka. "Kwandiri, zvine musoro kuti kuve nevashandi vanofara uye vashandi vakachengeteka."
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