通用汽車公司將在北美工廠裁員14800人

General Motors Co. plans to cut up to 14,800 jobs in the U.S. and Canada and end production at several North American factories, marking the auto maker's first significant downsizing since its bankruptcy last decade as the company tries to adjust to weak sedan sales.

通用汽車公司計劃在美國和加拿大裁員逾14800人，並關閉數家北美工廠。這是該汽車製造商爲了應對汽車銷售疲軟，自破產十年來的首次大幅裁員。

The moves would reduce GM's annual costs by $4.5 billion by the end of 2020, freeing up money to invest in electric and self-driving vehicles.

到2020年底，這項舉措將爲通用公司節省出45億美元的資金流，從而使得其能夠騰出資金投資電動汽車和自動駕駛汽車。

The decision, though, was called "callous" by the main auto workers union and prompted President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to each call GM Chief Executive Mary Barra to express their disappointment.

不過，汽車工人工會稱此計劃爲“無情的決定”，促使特朗普總統和加拿大總理賈斯·特魯多分別致電通用汽車首席執行官瑪麗·巴拉，表達他們對此計劃的不滿。

Ms. Barra said she wants to act now, despite a strong economy and the company's healthy earnings, to help GM sustain profits through an expected downturn in the U.S. car market and keep investing in burgeoning technologies.

巴拉稱，儘管經濟強勁，公司盈利狀況良好，但她希望現在就採取行動，幫助通用汽車在美國汽車市場出現低迷之前維持利潤，並繼續投資於新興技術。

"This is what we're doing to transform the company. The industry is changing very rapidly," Ms. Barra said Monday.

巴拉週一時表示：“這是我們公司改革的決策。汽車行業的變化非常快。”

"We think it's appropriate to get in front of it while the business and the economy are strong."

“我們認爲，在企業和經濟都很強勁的情況下，提前做一些準備是適宜的。”