The Irishman, released last year by Netflix, recounted the heyday of the powerful Teamsters union. Given the subsequent decline of American organised labour, the film depicts a lost era. But maybe not so much. On Wednesday, the US Treasury Department announced it would provide a $700m rescue term loan to YRC Worldwide, a trucking company that happens to employ 24,000 Teamsters. The heavily indebted company was running out of cash. The taxpayer gets 30 per cent of the company to accompany the four-year loan.
《愛爾蘭人》(The Irishman)是Netflix去年發(fā)行的電影，講述了強(qiáng)大的卡車司機(jī)工會(huì)的全盛時(shí)期。考慮到之后美國(guó)勞工組織的衰落，可以說(shuō)這部電影描繪了一個(gè)逝去的時(shí)代。但或許還不到這種地步。周三，美國(guó)財(cái)政部宣布將向耶路全球(YRC Worldwide)提供7億美元的救助貸款。耶路全球是一家貨運(yùn)公司，恰好雇用有2.4萬(wàn)名卡車司機(jī)。這家負(fù)債累累的公司現(xiàn)金即將耗盡。耶路全球獲得這筆為期4年的貸款，而納稅人將獲得該公司30%的股份。