關於 trade union role ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

美國在台協會很高興將於6月22日星期二中午12:30到下午5:00，與歐洲經貿辦事處、日本台灣交流協會與台灣經濟部共同合辦《科技產業全球供應鏈合作論壇》。這也是2021年首場由美國在台協會與理念相近夥伴在台辦事處所共同合辦，以科技產業為主軸的供應鏈論壇。美國在台協會處長酈英傑與歐盟、日本和台灣的代表都將參與開幕致詞。美國國務院助理次卿Matt Murray和AIT 經濟組副組長邵藹帝也會參加本論壇，和大家分享如何藉由強化夥伴關係，推動有利於貿易與投資的環境，來建立更有韌性的全球供應鏈。

想要了解台灣在建立韌性供應鏈中的角色嗎？歡迎大家來報名《科技產業全球供應鏈合作論壇》！來聽聽來自美國、歐盟、日本和台灣的產官學界專家，對於建立韌性、開放的科技產業供應鏈的機會與挑戰怎麼說！

千萬不要錯過這個好機會唷！報名資訊請見：https://bit.ly/3iHZ1EK

The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) is excited to co-host a virtual Forum on Tech Supply Chain Partnership from 12:30 to 17:00, June 22, Taipei Time alongside the European Economic and Trade Office (EETO), Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association (JTEA), and Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). This forum marks the first technology industry-focused supply chain forum in 2021 cohosted by the United States with offices of likeminded allies. AIT Director Brent Christensen will join representatives from the EU, Japan, and Taiwan to deliver opening remarks. US Department of State Deputy Assistant Secretary Matt Murray and AIT’s Economic Section Deputy Chief Arati Shroff will join the Forum’s panel to share how we can build a resilient global supply chain through enhanced partnership and through the facilitation of conducive trade and investment environments.

Come join us at the Forum on Tech Supply Chain Partnership to learn more about Taiwan’s role in building resilient supply chains! You’ll have the opportunity to connect with experts from the United States, the European Union, Japan, and Taiwan and learn how to develop resilient and open tech supply chains.

You can register via https://bit.ly/3iHZ1EK Don’t miss out on this opportunity!

想要了解台灣在和其他夥伴建立韌性供應鏈中的角色嗎？歡迎大家來報名《科技產業全球供應鏈合作論壇》！來聽聽來自美國、歐盟、日本和台灣的產官學界專家，對於理念相同夥伴建立韌性、開放的科技產業供應鏈的機會與挑戰怎麼說！

這場論壇將於5月27日於財團法人張榮發基金會國際會議中心舉辦。這也是本年度首場由美國在台協會與歐洲經貿辦事處、日本台灣交流協會與台灣經濟部共同合辦，以科技產業為主軸的供應鏈論壇。千萬不要錯過這個好機會唷！報名資訊請見：https://www.ebrctw.org/chi/events/events_content_20210527.aspx

Learn more about Taiwan’s role in building resilient supply chains with other partners! Come to join us at the Forum on Tech Supply Chain Partnership to learn from experts from the academia, public and private sectors from the United States, European Union, Japan, and Taiwan about the opportunities and challenges for developing resilient and open tech supply chains for likeminded partners!

The forum will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 17:30 on May 27, at the Evergreen International Convention Center. This will be this year’s first technology industry-focused supply chain forum cohosted by the American Institute in Taiwan, European Economic and Trade Office, Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association, and Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs. This Forum is open to the public and registration is open via the link below. Don’t miss out on this opportunity! https://www.ebrctw.org/eng/events/events_content_20210527.aspx

【#只談語言不論政治】英國Brexit專員David Davis向BBC解釋辭職原因

英國政壇大地震，現有Brexit secretary（脫歐事務大臣）David Davis昨天辭職，今日到Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson。

好多花生，也好多學英文的機會。

蕭叔叔

閱讀材料一《David Davis辭職公開信》

Dear Prime Minister

As you know there have been a significant number of occasions in the last year or so on which I have disagreed with the Number 10 policy line, ranging from accepting the Commission's sequencing of negotiations through to the language on Northern Ireland in the December Joint Report. At each stage I have accepted collective responsibility because it is part of my task to find workable compromises, and because I considered it was still possible to deliver on the mandate of the referendum, and on our manifesto commitment to leave the Customs Union and the Single Market.

I am afraid that I think the current trend of policy and tactics is making that look less and less likely. Whether it is the progressive dilution of what I thought was a firm Chequers agreement in February on right to diverge, or the unnecessary delays of the start of the White Paper, or the presentation of a backstop proposal that omitted the strict conditions that I requested and believed that we had agreed, the general direction of policy will leave us in at best a weak negotiating position, and possibly an inescapable one.

The Cabinet decision on Friday crystallised this problem. In my view the inevitable consequence of the proposed policies will be to make the supposed control by Parliament illusory rather than real. As I said at Cabinet, the "common rule book" policy hands control of large swathes of our economy to the EU and is certainly not returning control of our laws in any real sense.

I am also unpersuaded that our negotiating approach will not just lead to further demands for concessions.

Of course this is a complex area of judgement and it is possible that you are right and I am wrong. However, even in that event it seems to me that the national interest requires a Secretary of State in my Department that is an enthusiastic believer in your approach, and not merely a reluctant conscript. While I have been grateful to you for the opportunity to serve, it is with great regret that I tender my resignation from the Cabinet with immediate effect.

Yours ever

David Davis

閱讀材料二：《首相Theresa May公開回信》

Dear David

Thank you for your letter explaining your decision to resign as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

I am sorry that you have chosen to leave the Government when we have already made so much progress towards delivering a smooth and successful Brexit, and when we are only eight months from the date set in law when the United Kingdom will leave the European Union.

At Chequers on Friday, we as the Cabinet agreed a comprehensive and detailed proposal which provides a precise, responsible, and credible basis for progressing our negotiations towards a new relationship between the UK and the EU after we leave in March. We set out how we will deliver on the result of the referendum and the commitments we made in our manifesto for the 2017 general election:

1. Leaving the EU on 29 March 2019.

2. Ending free movement and taking back control of our borders.

3. No more sending vast sums of money each year to the EU.

4. A new business-friendly customs model with freedom to strike new trade deals around the world.

5. A UK-EU free trade area with a common rulebook for industrial goods and agricultural products which will be good for jobs.

6. A commitment to maintain high standards on consumer and employment rights and the environment.

7. A Parliamentary lock on all new rules and regulations.

8. Leaving the Common Agricultural Policy and the Common Fisheries Policy.

9. Restoring the supremacy of British courts by ending the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in the UK.

10. No hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, or between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.

11. Continued, close co-operation on security to keep our people safe.

12. An independent foreign and defence policy, working closely with the EU and other allies.

This is consistent with the mandate of the referendum and with the commitments we laid out in our general election manifesto: leaving the single market and the customs union but seeking a deep and special partnership including a comprehensive free trade and customs agreement; ending the vast annual contributions to the EU; and pursuing fair, orderly negotiations, minimising disruption and giving as much certainty as possible so both sides benefit.

As we said in our manifesto, we believe it is necessary to agree the terms of our future partnership alongside our withdrawal, reaching agreement on both within the two years allowed by Article 50.

I have always agreed with you that these two must go alongside one another, but if we are to get sufficient detail about our future partnership, we need to act now. We have made a significant move: it is for the EU now to respond in the same spirit.

I do not agree with your characterisation of the policy we agreed at Cabinet on Friday.

Parliament will decide whether or not to back the deal the Government negotiates, but that deal will undoubtedly mean the returning of powers from Brussels to the United Kingdom.

The direct effect of EU law will end when we leave the EU. Where the UK chooses to apply a common rulebook, each rule will have to be agreed by Parliament.

Choosing not to sign up to certain rules would lead to consequences for market access, security co-operation or the frictionless border, but that decision will rest with our sovereign Parliament, which will have a lock on whether to incorporate those rules into the UK legal order.

I am sorry that the Government will not have the benefit of your continued expertise and counsel as we secure this deal and complete the process of leaving the EU, but I would like to thank you warmly for everything you have done over the past two years as Secretary of State to shape our departure from the EU, and the new role the UK will forge on the world stage as an independent, self-governing nation once again.

You returned to Government after nineteen years to lead an entirely new Department responsible for a vital, complex, and unprecedented task.

You have helped to steer through Parliament some of the most important legislation for generations, including the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017 and the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, which received Royal Assent last week.

These landmark Acts, and what they will do, stand as testament to your work and our commitment to honouring the result of the referendum.

Yours sincerely,

Theresa May

#迷上英式英文

BATU ARANG MERDEKA SPECIAL | A step back in time --
Produced by Indrani Kopal | Sept 18, 2010 --

The quiet Batu Arang is home town of former All Malaya Estate Staff Union secretary-general Jiwi Kathiyah.

According to Jiwi, during its heyday, Batu Arang was a fountain of peace and a cauldron of revolutionary spirit, all at the same time.

This forgotten town which witnessed some of country's most popular labour strikes and demonstrations is also home to many prominent leaders past and present. Today it silently holds many untold stories of our history.

Batu Arang was the birthplace of many radical unions. The Coal Workers Union had a leading role in some of the largest strikes of the period when they protested over their working conditions and poor wages.

Video by Indrani Kopal, Shufiyan Shukur, Maran Perianen and Jiwi Kathaiyah

The first half was Reggie Miller's. The game belonged to Allen Iverson.

Iverson scored a career playoff-high 45 points, including 19 in the third quarter, as the Philadelphia 76ers overcame Miller's 41 points, beating the Indiana Pacers 116-98 Tuesday night to even their first-round series at 1-1.

Game 3 of the best-of-five Eastern Conference quarterfinals is Saturday in Indiana.

"I'm going to remember this game for a long time," said Iverson, who also had nine assists. "I've been playing a lot off my God-given ability. This game took a lot of thinking. I'm pleased with my mental aspect coming into the game... When guys doubled me, I found my teammates and they hit the shots. I don't think I forced too many things."

Aaron McKie had 19 points and George Lynch added 16 for Philadelphia, which finished as the top team in the East for the first time since 1983-84.

Jalen Rose had 18 and Jermaine O'Neal added 11 points and 11 rebounds for the Pacers, who were down just 61-59 at halftime after getting 33 from Miller.

"I wish it was reversed," Miller said. "The game is four quarters. I hate doing things early. I like doing it late."

Iverson scored 14 of Philadelphia's final 17 points in the third, including the last 10. He drilled a 17-footer, another long jumper and hit a 3-pointer to give the Sixers their biggest lead to that point, 88-76, with 1:11 left.

After Rose hit a jumper, Iverson nailed another 19-footer as the sellout crowd of 20,739 at the First Union Center chanted "MVP, MVP" for the league's scoring champion.

Iverson pumped his fist, raised his arms and cupped his ear, imploring the fans to make more noise before he finished the quarter at the foul line, giving the Sixers a 91-78 lead on a free throw.

Indiana didn't get closer than 10 in the fourth.

"It was a phenomenal performance and it took that," Sixers coach Larry Brown said of Iverson's play.

Miller, whose three-pointer with 2.9 seconds left in Game 1 lifted the Pacers to a 79-78 comeback victory, opened the game with a 3-pointer and proceeded to hit shots from all over the court.

He scored seven straight points three different times -- at the start of the game, midway through the first and to begin the second.

Four Sixers -- Eric Snow, Kevin Ollie, Iverson and McKie -- tried to guard Miller in the first half and none could stop him.

Even Pacers coach Isiah Thomas was excited after Miller's running jumper gave Indiana a 39-37 lead midway through the second. The normally reserved Thomas clapped his hands and low-fived Miller as he ran down the court.

But Miller missed all three of his shots in the third and scored only two points on free throws as Iverson took over, helping the Sixers break open a tight game.

Miller finished 14-of-22, including 3-for-5 from 3-point range. Iverson was 15-of-27, including 3-for-7 from beyond the arc.

"They did a good job of recognizing where Reggie was (in the second half)," Thomas said. "They were double-teaming him and we didn't do a good job of finding the open guys inside."

Philadelphia stressed the importance of getting the ball inside to its big men -- Dikembe Mutombo and Tyrone Hill -- after the guards took 57 of 78 shots in the opener. But Mutombo and Hill combined for three shots in the first half and neither scored.

Mutombo finally scored on a layup with 6:23 left in the third, and finished with three points and 11 rebounds, one of his worst games since joining the Sixers in a deal at the trade deadline.

"We were making so many shots it's tough to get the big guys involved," Brown said.

Miller had 16 points in the first quarter, nearly matching his total of 17 in Game 1. He was just 5-of-21 in the opener, but made his fifth shot with 4:04 left in the first.

Thomas was very critical of the referees, even though Indiana had three fewer fouls. Thomas was most upset that Philadelphia had 17 foul shots in the third.

"I hope they allow our players to move around and run, and not be physically abused," Thomas said.

Notes: Miller fell six points shy of Sleepy Floyd's playoff record for points in a half. Floyd had 39 for Golden State in a game against the Los Angeles Lakers on May 10, 1987. ... Iverson's previous playoff high was 40 points against Charlotte last year. ... Indiana has never lost a playoff series in which it won the first game, going 11-0 since 1993-94. ... The Pacers are 5-2 in playoff games at the First Union Center. ... Thomas got a technical for arguing a foul call early in the third. ... Austin Croshere scored 10 points in a reserve role and fouled out with 5:01 left. ... Philadelphia made seven 3-pointers, a team playoff record.