Wednesday, June 28, 2023
The Mining Journal 5A
State/Nation/World
Ford cutting
several hundred
white-collar jobs to
reduce cost amid
transition to
electric vehicles
DEARBORN,
Mich.
(AP) — Ford Motor Co.
is going through another
round of white-collar job
cuts as the company con-
tinues to reduce costs amid
a transition to electric vehi-
cles.
The company confirmed
Tuesday that it was starting
to notify several hundred
engineers and other salaried
employees that their jobs
are being eliminated. The
firings come after around
200 Ford contract employ-
ees were let go last week.
Spokesman T.R. Reid
wouldn’t give a specific
number of Ford jobs that
are being cut this week,
but said they are not nearly
the scale of those made last
summer when the company
let go of 3,000 white-collar
workers and another 1,000
contractors largely in the
U.S.
Tanya Nedashkivs’ka, 57, mourns the death of her husband
who was killed in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine,
on April 4. The United Nations human rights office says Rus-
sian forces carried out widespread and systematic torture of
civilians who were detained in connection with its attack on
Ukraine, and summarily executed dozens of them. (AP photo)
In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, an employee checks a visitor outside the Metropolitan Correc-
tional Center in New York. The Justice Department’s watchdog said Tuesday that “a combination
of negligence and misconduct”enabled Jeffrey Epstein to take his own life at a federal jail in New
York City. (AP photo)
UN report finds Russia tortured,
executed civilians in Ukraine;
Kyiv also abused detainees
Misconduct by federal jail guards led to Jeffrey
Epstein’s suicide, Justice Department watchdog says
By MICHAEL R. SISAK
and LINDSAY WHITE-
HURST
volved in guarding Epstein Prisons said in a statement.
were overworked. He iden- Horowitz’s report comes
tified 13 employees with nearly four years after Ep-
poor performance and rec- stein took his own life at the
By FRANK JORDANS
Associated Press
BERLIN — Russian forc- ecutions of civilians.
Russian forces also carried
out at least 77 summary ex-
Associated Press
es carried out widespread
Those detained included
Most of the cuts were in
engineering, but all busi-
ness units will see job cuts,
Reid said.
“Teams that were affected
were pulled together yester-
day to let them know that
there would be actions tak-
en this week. Then individ-
ual people will be notified
today and tomorrow,” Reid
said.
WASHINGTON — Jef- ommended charges against Metropolitan Correctional
frey Epstein, despite his high four workers. Only the two Center in Manhttan while
profile and a jail suicide at- workers assigned to guard awaiting trial on sex traffick-
tempt two weeks earlier, was Epstein the night he died ing and conspiracy charges.
left alone in his cell with a were charged, avoiding jail It also comes weeks after
surplus of bed linens. Nearly time in a plea deal after ad- the AP obtained thousands
and systematic torture of local officials, humanitar-
civilians who were detained ian volunteers, priests and
in connection with its at- teachers, many of whom
tack on Ukraine, summarily were held incommunicado
executing dozens of them, in “deplorable conditions,”
the United Nations human the report found.
all the surveillance camer- mitting to falsifying logs.
as on his unit didn’t record. Horowitz’s report high- ing the wealthy financier’s
One worker was on duty for lighted some of the many detention and death and its
24 hours straight. problems plaguing the Bu- chaotic aftermath.
The Justice Department’s reau of Prisons, many of Horowitz’s investigators
of pages of records detail-
rights office said Tuesday.
U.N. experts found no
The global body inter- evidence that Russian au-
viewed hundreds of victims thorities have investigated
and witnesses for a report allegations of abuse by their
detailing more than 900 own forces and the report
cases of civilians, including expressed concern over a
children and elderly people, bill that would exempt per-
being arbitrarily detained in petrators from criminal lia-
the conflict, most of them by bility for crimes committed
Russia.
The vast majority of those under some circumstances.
interviewed said they were “This would violate the
tortured and in some cases state’s obligation to inves-
subjected to sexual violence tigate and prosecute serious
during detention by Rus- violations of international
sian forces, the head of the humanitarian law and gross
U.N. human rights office in violations of international
Ukraine said.
“Torture was used to force said.
victims to confess to help- While
ing Ukrainian armed forces, launched criminal probes
compel them to cooperate against Russian forces over
with the occupying authori- the detention of civilians,
ties or intimidate those with resulting in 23 convictions,
pro-Ukrainian views,” said the U.N. rights office said it
watchdog said Tuesday that which have been exposed by found no evidence to sug-
negligence, misconduct and The Associated Press. The gest anything other than sui-
poor job performance by agency, the Justice Depart- cide, echoing the findings of
the federal Bureau of Pris- ment’s largest with more New York City’s medical
ons and workers at the New than 30,000 employees, examiner’s office, which
York City jail enabled Ep- 158,000 inmates and an determined Epstein killed
stein to take his own life in annual budget of about $8 himself, and a separate FBI
CEO Jim Farley has said
much of Ford’s workforce
doesn’t have the right skills
as it makes the transition
from internal combustion to
battery-powered vehicles.
This week’s moves, he
said, show that Ford is
adapting to change more
consistently. “It’s more
real time and not kind of
big titanic events,” he said,
adding that the company
also is hiring in some areas
such as software develop-
ment.
The job cuts also come as
Ford tries to level out what
its executives say is a $7
billion cost disadvantage to
its competitors. The com-
pany also is investing over
$50 billion by 2026 to
develop and build electric
vehicles across the globe.
Ford plans to be able to
manufacture EVs at a rate
of 600,000 per year by the
end of this year and 2 mil-
lion a year by 2026.
in occupied parts of Ukraine
August 2019.
Inspector General Mi- staffing shortages, staff sex- crimes associated with the
chael Horowitz, saying he ual abuse and criminal con- death.
found no evidence of foul duct, among other issues. No physical evidence sup-
play, blamed numerous fac- The Bureau of Prisons said ported any of the many con-
billion, is plagued by severe investigation that found no
tors for Epstein’s death, in- it has accepted all eight of spiracy theories surrounding
cluding the jail’s failure to Horowitz’s recommenda- Epstein’s death, Horowitz
assign him a cellmate and tions, has updated its suicide concluded, and none of the
overworked guards who lied watch process and will ap- video captured from the
on logs after failing to make ply other lessons learned “to cameras that were recording
regular checks. Had the the broader BOP correction- showed any indication of
guards done so, Horowitz al landscape.” anyone else in the cell. In-
said, they would’ve found The agency said it will vestigators probed for pos-
Epstein had excess linens, review video to ensure cor- sible money changing hands
which he used in his suicide. rectional officers are mak- involving guards but found
“The combination of neg- ing the proper rounds and no evidence of that, either.
human rights law,” Bogner
Ukraine
has
Matilda Bogner.
wasn’t aware of any inves-
The report, which covers tigations against Ukraine’s
a 15-month period from the own forces for such viola-
start of the Russian invasion tions.
ligence, misconduct and will require more paperwork
The workers assigned to
outright job performance when prisoners are kept guard Epstein were sleeping
failures documented in the alone in cells. A warden and shopping online instead
report all contributed to an must now be notified when of checking on him every 30
environment in which argu- someone is placed on sui- minutes as required, prose-
ably one of the most notori- cide watch, the agency said. cutors said.
to May 2023, also docu-
Bogner said Ukrainian
mented 75 cases of arbitrary laws on detention for nation-
detention by Ukrainian se- al security reasons “appear
curity forces, saying a sig- to go beyond what is per-
nificant proportion of these missible under international
also amounted to enforced law, even during a public
disappearances.
More than half of those de- tated arbitrary detention.”
tained by Ukrainian forces She urged both sides to
also reported being tortured provide information to rela-
or mistreated, usually while tives on the whereabouts and
they were being interrogated fate of people detained and
or immediately after arrest, to release any civilians who
ous inmates in BOP’s cus- It is also requiring special-
tody was provided with the ized training on suicide pre- Thomas admitted lying on
opportunity to take his own vention. prison records to make it
life,” Horowitz wrote in a “We make every effort to seem as though they had
Nova Noel and Michael
The company has reor-
ganized itself into three
business units, Ford Model
e for electric vehicles, Ford
Blue for vehicles with
combustion engines and
Ford Pro for commercial
vehicles.
emergency, and have facili-
report detailing his findings. create a controlled environ- made the checks but avoid-
Horowitz’s investigation, ment within our facilities ed prison time under a deal
the last of several official that is both secure and hu- with prosecutors. They left
inquiries into Epstein’s mane, prioritizing the phys- the Bureau of Prisons in
death, echoed previous ical and emotional well-be- April 2022, agency spokes-
findings that some mem- ing of those in our care and person Benjamin O’Cone
bers of the jail staff in- custody,” the Bureau of said.
said Bogner.
remain arbitrarily detained.
Ukraine gave U.N. inves-
tigators “unimpeded confi-
dential access” to detainees
at official detention cen-
ters, with the exception of a
group of 87 Russian sailors,
she said.
“The Russian Federation
did not grant us such access,
despite our requests,” Bogn-
er said.
The U.N. rights office
has previously documented
the detention and summa-
ry execution of Ukrainian
prisoners of war by Russia.
The latest report found that
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