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A |     DETROIT -- The United Auto Workers union significantly escalated its walkout against Detroit's Three automakers, shutting down Ford's largest factory and threatening Jeep maker Stellantis.In a surprise move Wednesday night, 8,700 members left their jobs at Ford’s Kentucky truck plant in Louisville.And Thursday morning, union President Shawn Fain hinted at further action against Stellantis. “Here's to hoping talks at Stellantis today are more productive than Ford yesterday,” Fain wrote on X, formerly Twitter, without saying what might happen.Ford's truck plant makes heavy-duty F-Series pickup trucks and large Ford and Lincoln SUVs, hitting the company's most lucrative products. The vehicles made at the plant generate $25 billion per year in revenue, the company said in a statement.Fain said in a statement that the union has waited long enough “but Ford hasn’t gotten the message” to bargain for a fair contract. “If they can’t understand that after four weeks, the 8,700 workers shutting down this extremely profitable plant will help them understand it,” Fain said.The strike came nearly four weeks after the union began its walkouts against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis on Sept. 15, with one assembly plant from each company. The company, however, called the strike expansion “grossly irresponsible” and said it has made strong wage and benefit offers to the union. It said the move puts about a dozen other Ford facilities at risk, as well as parts supply plants that together employ over 100,000 people.A Ford executive said the union called a meeting at the company's Dearborn, Michigan, headquarters Wednesday afternoon where Fain asked if the company had another offer. High-ranking Ford executives responded that they are working on possibly bringing electric vehicle battery plants into the UAW national contract, essentially making them unionized. But they didn't have a significantly different economic offer, the executive said. Fain was told the company put a strong offer on the table, but there wasn't a lot of room to increase it and keep it affordable for the business, the executive said.Fain responded by saying, if that's the company's best offer, “You just lost Kentucky Truck Plant,” said the executive. The meeting only lasted about 15 minutes, he said. In a video, Fain said the union moved because Ford didn't change its offer. “We've been very patient working with the company on this,” he said. “They have not met expectations, they're not even coming to the table on it.”The escalation against Ford shows that Fain is trying to increase pressure on the company, said Marick Masters, a business professor at Wayne State University who follows labor issues.But Ford and the other automakers have made concessions and raised wage offers, he said. The companies, he said, “may have reached their resistance points to varying degrees.” Executives, he said, have bottom line positions they can’t cross in terms of staying competitive with other automakers.Fain, Masters said, likely is testing how far he needs to push Ford before going to “full throttle,” by taking all 57,000 Ford members out on strike.The union’s move doesn’t leave him optimistic for a quick end to the strikes, Masters said. “I think the issues that remain on the table are quite thorny,” he said, pointing to union demands that all workers get defined benefit pensions and health insurance when they retire.The UAW expanded its strikes on Sept. 22, adding 38 GM and Stellantis parts warehouses. Assembly plants from Ford and GM were added the week after that. The Kentucky strike brings to 33,700 the number of workers on strike against the three automakers.Thus far, the union has decided to target a small number of plants from each company rather than have all 146,000 UAW members at the automakers go on strike at the same time.Last week, the union reported progress in the talks and decided not to add any more plants. This came after GM agreed to bring joint-venture electric vehicle battery factories into the national master contract, almost assuring that the plants will be unionized.Battery plants are a major point of contention in the negotiations. The UAW wants those plants to be unionized to assure jobs and top wages for workers who will be displaced by the industry’s ongoing transition to electric vehicles.Since the start of the strike, the three Detroit automakers have laid off roughly 4,800 workers at factories that are not among the plants that have been hit by the UAW strikes.The companies say the strikes have forced them to impose those layoffs. They note that the job cuts have occurred mainly at factories that make parts for assembly plants that were closed by strikes.The UAW rejects that argument. It contends that the layoffs are unjustified and were imposed as part of the companies' pressure campaign to persuade UAW members to accept less in negotiations with automakers. The factories affected by layoffs are in six states: Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Indiana and New York. Sam Fiorani, an analyst with AutoForecast Solutions, a consulting firm, said he thinks the layoffs reflect a simple reality: The automakers are losing money because of the strikes. By slowing or idling factories that are running below their capacities because of strike-related parts shortages, Fiorani said, the companies can mitigate further losses.“It doesn’t make sense to keep running at 30% or 40% of capacity when it normally runs at 100%,” he said. Striking workers are receiving $500 a week from the union’s strike pay fund. In some states, laid-off workers could qualify for state unemployment aid, which, depending on a variety of circumstances, could be less or more than $500 a week. Fiorani said that as the strikes widen, more workers will likely be laid off at non-striking plants. Separate companies that manufacture parts for the automakers are likely to have laid off workers but might not report them publicly, said Patrick Anderson, CEO of the Anderson Economic Group in Lansing, Michigan. A survey of parts supply companies by a trade association called MEMA Original Equipment Suppliers found that 30% of members have laid off workers and that more than 60% expect to start layoffs in mid-October.。

B |     中新网海口7月22日电 (记者 孙自法)备受瞩目的中国长征十号乙运载火箭首飞任务，7月10日在海南商业航天发射场圆满实施，既将卫星顺利送入预定轨道，又实现全球首次运载火箭网系成功回收。         　　鲜为人知的是，在这一标志着中国重复使用火箭技术取得历史性突破的背后，也有着地震科技的倾情守护和默默见证。         　　记者近日随中国地震局“防震减灾高质量发展进行时”主题采访走进海南了解到，为助力海南自由贸易港建设与发展，海南省地震局积极推动地震科技开展立地、顶天、向海的全方位服务，不断探索地震研究应用实现“海阔天高”的答卷。

C |          　　全天候“体检”商业航天发射场          　　海南省地震局局长郭洪义表示，在中国地震局党组和海南省委、省政府的高度重视下，海南省地震局与海南商业航天发射场密切合作，联合国内顶尖科研团队，在该发射场布设130余台高精度地震仪，对发射塔架和周边场地进行24小时不间断的健康监测和预警，充分发挥多学科交叉优势，合作构建“场地更安全、塔架更结实、环境更清晰”的全方位安全体系，为中国商业航天高质量安全发展提供坚实科技支撑。

D |          海南商业航天发射场一体化地震监测示范站，不远处就是发射工位。中新网记者 孙自法 摄          　　海南地震台台长王惠琳介绍说，当前海南岛布设151个标准化陆地地震预警站点，搭配海洋浮标、岛礁深井、海底线缆、风电场观测各类站点，共同构成陆海一体化全域监测底座，具备全域地震监测、秒级预警能力。

E |          　　作为地震监测预警以及保障航天发射场安全运行的重点专用台站，海南商业航天发射场一体化地震监测示范站2026年5月建成，6月正式接入预警中心，实现区域地震、发射振动24小时全天候实时监测，对航天发射地震预警、发射场地质风险评估起核心支撑作用。         　　分工上，海南全省陆地站点负责远距离捕捉区域天然地震，给发射场提供前置预警；一体化监测示范站紧邻发射工位，专门采集火箭发射高频冲击振动、场区地层微小变化，针对性满足航天场景特殊监测需求，填补国内商业航天特殊场景地震监测空白，积累形成长期稳定的商业航天专属振动实测数据库，为发射场全生命周期运维、结构检修提供科学依据。         　　在海南省震灾风险防治中心负责人赵军卫看来，专为海南商业航天发射塔架设计建设的全天候24小时健康监测系统，相当于给塔架佩戴一套“全方位体检仪”，每一次发射、每一场地震或台风，都能自动记录结构振动数据，量化影响程度，既为塔架全生命周期安全保障提供数据支撑，也将推动形成标准并推广应用到其他发射场。         　　王惠琳透露，在成功构建“地震预警+发射运维”一体化安全保障机制的基础上，后续将与海南商业航天发射场紧密协作，建设航天发射地震预警专用台网，搭建专属监测预警体系，常态化开展地震预警、发射振动影响评估、发射工位优化设计及长期安全监测，全链条服务高密度、高频次商业航天发射和回收。

F |          　　郭洪义强调，海南省地震局下一步还将推进超强台风频繁影响下重大基础设施抗震韧性保障技术的研究，以硬核地震科技筑牢商业航天发射安全底线，护航海南自贸港航天重大工程安全稳定运行和高质量发展。

G |          　　火箭地震学和熔洞研究服务探月          　　发射场只是航天的基础与起点，基于海南商业航天发射场一体化地震监测站的建设和运行，海南省地震局科技团队与发达国家同行在国际上同步提出火箭地震学的概念与理论，并将地震科技“顶天”应用的目标，拓展到月球、火星等更遥远的太空。         　　中国地震局地球物理研究所副研究员陈波表示，火箭地震学的核心是将火箭发射/再入产生的震动与声波作为震源，用地震学方法研究地下结构和行星地质。

H |          　　火箭地震学预期可作为航天与地球物理交叉领域的新兴研究方向，其核心优势在于可将航天器发射、再入等航天活动转化为低成本、强能量、广覆盖的人工震源，形成 “一箭多能” 的新型增值探测范式，为行星地下结构探测提供新的技术路径。

I |          　　开展火箭地震学基础研究，旨在探索将火箭发射作为地震源来成像行星体地下结构的可行性，进而识别地质灾害、断层、隧道、水冰和矿床等。         　　陈波指出，火箭地震学的意义远超地球本身。月球、火星等地外天体表面环境极端恶劣，存在昼夜温差极大、宇宙射线强、陨石撞击频发等风险，其天然熔岩洞内部空间相对封闭、环境稳定，是未来建设星际基地的理想天然载体。将火箭发射地震波主动源探测与熔岩洞管三维结构精细刻画相结合，不仅能够深化地球浅层构造研究认知，更具有重要的星际探索应用价值。         在雷琼火山区熔岩洞(类月场地)探测试验场，地震科研团队在熔洞内开展相关探测工作。

J | 中新网记者 孙自法 摄          　　依托海南琼北火山熔岩洞开展类月试验研究，可为地外天体熔岩洞探测、基地选址与安全建设提供关键技术验证和先期科学铺垫，服务中国探月工程的国际月球科研站建设。         　　他透露，面向未来，海南省地震局将联合相关科研院所持续深化地震科技与航天工程交叉融合，依托海南休眠火山等特色资源，固化熔岩洞多物理场监测技术方法，完善行星浅层结构勘探技术体系，持续打通“地球洞管走向星际基地”的深空探索路径，为中国商业航天产业发展和深空探测贡献地震科技力量。         　　在雷琼火山区熔岩洞(类月场地)探测试验场，海南省地震局监测预报与科技处负责人刘阳说，试验场选址所在的雷琼火山，是中国规模最大、持续时间最长的第四纪火山群之一，这里的火山熔岩洞群在形成形态、时间尺度及成因等方面，与月球、火星表面广泛分布的熔岩洞管高度相似，是不可多得的类行星环境，为模拟月球、火星等地质环境与地下空间利用提供了重要的“天然实验室”。         　　形成多类型立体化海洋地震监测网络          　　作为中国第二大岛和目前管辖“蓝色国土”面积最大的省份，海洋地震监测也是海南省地震局承担的主业主责之一。         　　海南省地震局副局长姚道平表示，海南商业航天发射场临海布局，海域地震、海啸、海底滑坡等风险不容忽视，海南现已建成多类型海洋地震监测站点，通过“十五五”规划建设，将初步形成近海全覆盖、远海补短板的立体化海洋监测格局，有力配套支撑航天发射海域安全保障，更好服务海洋强国战略，助力海南“向天图强”。         　　目前，海南近海已建成2座海洋浮标观测站、1座风电场升压平台站、1座风电场海底地震观测站以及1条海底光纤地震观测阵列，逐步补齐近海海域地震监测盲区，可实时捕捉近海海域地震活动、海底滑坡活动信号，与陆地台网、海南商业航天发射场一体化监测站形成陆海一体联合监测体系。

K |          海南商业航天发射场，地震科技团队开展移动监测。

L | 中新网记者 孙自法 摄          　　王惠琳补充说，计划在海南商业航天发射场临近的海域布设海底监测站，进一步加密近海监测点位。同时，海南将持续提升中远海监测能力，2座中远海海底线缆节点站正在加快实施，预计2026年8月份完工投用。海底线缆节点站建成后，将大幅提升中国南部重点海域地震、海啸、海底滑坡等灾害的精准监测与快速识别能力，进一步完善陆海一体化监测预警体系，为海南商业航天发射提供更全面的海域安全监测保障，筑牢海域地震安全屏障。         　　此外，根据海南商业航天发射场一体化地震监测站的滨海特色，其设备适配海边高温、高湿、高盐工况，具备24小时全天候不间断运行、防雷防腐、断电备份续航能力，实现区域地震活动、工程振动的全天候、自动化、高精度、秒级实时监测。         　　“海阔凭鱼跃，天高任鸟飞”。

M | 在海南，地震科技创新正助力防震减灾事业脚踏实地、顶天向海前行，为海南自贸港高质量发展保驾护航。

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