加州民主党众议员罗·卡纳召开圆桌会议，此前中国玻璃制造商拒绝配合国会调查
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2026年10月6日，在俄亥俄州代顿市与众议员罗·卡纳举行的圆桌讨论中，福耀玻璃美国公司的前雇员详细描述了他们在该公司俄亥俄州工厂“糟糕透顶”的工作经历。
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一家中国玻璃制造商拒绝配合国会监督调查的决定，促使加州民主党众议员罗·卡纳与该工厂前工人举行了一场揭露真相的圆桌会议。会上，工人们描述了一系列危险的工作环境以及对自身安全的担忧。
作为众议院中国问题特别委员会 ranking member（注：此为国会职位标准译法，通常译为“资深委员”或“少数党资深成员”，此处结合语境译为“ ranking member”），卡纳于7月首次联系福耀玻璃美国公司及其中国母公司福耀玻璃工业集团股份有限公司，要求提供该公司业务和劳工做法相关文件。
福耀因成为2019年网飞纪录片《美国工厂》的拍摄对象而迅速引起锈带地区乃至全美国民众的关注。该片记录了福耀收购俄亥俄州代顿郊外一座前通用汽车工厂的全过程。
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自那以来，该公司一直深陷多起丑闻：因违反职业安全与健康管理局（OSHA）的 workplace safety violations（注：此处译为“ workplace safety violations”）被处以数十万美元罚款，以及2018年工厂工人里基·帕特森死亡事件。
卡纳在10月致福耀管理层的后续信函中谴责该公司拒绝对话，指责其仅回复了一封信函就回应了他的多次质询。卡纳在10月1日致该公司的信函中写道，福耀9月23日的回复“几乎没有实质性回答委员会的任何问题，也未提交任何文件”。
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尽管福耀保持沉默，卡纳还是前往了俄亥俄州西部——这个近几十年来因制造业岗位流失而满目疮痍的地区。
卡纳在俄亥俄州代顿市的通讯工人国际联盟（IUE-CWA）工业分部总部，召集了福耀前雇员和现任工会领袖举行圆桌讨论。
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讨论期间，福耀前雇员们诉说了难以忍受的高温、无法与中国主管沟通，以及与中国同事相关的明显劳工违规行为等诸多不满。
“车间里热得让人受不了，他们根本不在乎。”在福耀工作了三年的蒂芙尼·摩尔对在场人员说道。
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“语言壁垒是个大问题。他们没法和你沟通。当你试着和他们交流时，他们只会派其他人过来，可能其中有人会说点英语。”摩尔继续说道。
和桌上其他许多福耀前雇员一样，摩尔现在在通用汽车旗下的发动机制造商杜拉马克斯工作，她说自己在那里开心多了。但为了申请这个职位，她不得不采取秘密措施，以避免遭到福耀老板的报复。
“你不能提前两周提交辞职报告，因为如果你这么做，他们会在你离职前随便找个理由解雇你。他们会说不需要任何理由就能解雇你，只是为了尽快填补你的岗位。所以我离开的时候，其实是偷偷走的，先去杜拉马克斯完成了入职培训，然后再打电话告诉他们我不会回去了，让他们给我办理401(k)账户转出手续。”摩尔说。
另一名从福耀跳槽到杜拉马克斯的工人德米特里亚·霍奇斯讲述了一名她认为没有驾照的中国叉车司机用叉车撞了她，却未受到任何追责的经历。
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“当时有监控摄像头，车间里到处都是摄像头，但他们就装作不知道那个叉车司机是谁。”她在接受福克斯新闻数字频道的独家采访时说道。“所以当我试图提起诉讼和申请工伤赔偿时，他们就装作不认识那个人。”
尽管美国工人形容自己的工作条件极其恶劣，但他们表示中国工人的待遇更差。
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“他们的待遇糟糕透顶。”摩尔对在场人员说。“他们不准拿我们的任何东西，也不准和我们交流，不准和我们混在一起。”
摩尔、霍奇斯和其他人表示，中国工人几乎总是获得晋升机会的首选，因为福耀付给他们的工资更低。他们还说，公司不断从其他地方运送新工人过来。
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“他们以前每隔几个月就轮换一次工人。比如他们会去纽约租一辆巴士或者面包车，载满满一车人下来。他们工作几个月后，就会被轮换送回去。”霍奇斯说道。
当霍奇斯提到工厂部分区域起火后，工人们仍被迫第二天照常上班时，卡纳问她工人们是否是无证移民。
“我认为这就是他们默默接受的原因，因为他们是无证移民。”霍奇斯说。
另一名福耀前雇员达雷尔·琼斯告诉卡纳，他认为工人们需要工会的支持，这一观点立刻引发了在场众人的热烈讨论。
“他们根本不让工会进来。”摩尔插话道。“你甚至都不能在那里谈论工会。”
“否则就会丢掉工作。”霍奇斯补充道。
琼斯还解释说，福耀威胁员工，如果他们组织工会，公司就会取消他们的医疗保险。霍奇斯随后补充说，公司曾提出如果员工投票反对计划中的工会公投，每人可以获得每小时2美元的一次性加薪。
“他们说如果那里真的成立了工会，他就会把工厂关掉。”琼斯回忆起一名主管对他说的话。
琼斯还回忆了导致2018年57岁福耀工厂工人里基·帕特森悲剧死亡的经过。
“那个工人被玻璃砸死的时候，我们那天还得正常上班。”琼斯回忆道。
“他当时有点手抖，因为他刚失去了母亲。他当时正在装玻璃。他切断了一端的固定，本来应该把叉车放在下面支撑，但他没这么做。当他切断第一侧的时候，另一侧就松动了。”琼斯说。
“当场就把他砸扁了。”他总结道。
职业安全与健康管理局（OSHA）就导致帕特森死亡的安全违规行为，以非正式和解的方式对福耀处以7000美元罚款。
“以前有个同事在那里工作过，他去世前总跟我说，‘你们早晚会料到那家工厂会死人的’。”IUE-CWA代顿地方分会主席萨姆·桑德斯对在场人员说道。
“他说什么？”有人问道。
“预计会有人死在那家工厂。”桑德斯重复道。
卡纳告诉在场人员，他认为美国需要为外国企业在美国购买或建造工厂制定新的标准。他在接受福克斯新闻数字频道独家采访时重申了这一观点。
“我们欢迎外国在美国投资，如果他们想开工厂，我们应该欢迎，但他们必须遵守我们的规则。他们不能像在其他国家那样做事，而要像在美国做事一样。”卡纳告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“这意味着要有安全标准，而且安全标准要得到执行；这意味着劳资中立，所以不能开展反工会运动；这意味着要遵守基于性别和种族的反歧视法律；这意味着要建立沟通渠道，让工人有话语权，不能把工人当成可有可无的耗材。”他继续说道。
这位来自硅谷的国会议员随后解释说，他希望能够起草立法，改革当前允许外国公司在几乎没有监督的情况下购买美国工厂的流程。他还认为，美国制造业需要美国政府的支持。
“我们需要在美国成立一家工业开发银行，投资像俄亥俄州代顿这样的地区，建造新工厂，支持那些生产我们目前依赖进口产品的制造商。我们为什么要只依赖外国投资？”他问道。
在未能获准进入福耀工厂进行监督检查后，卡纳仍希望从外部查看工厂，在公司厂区外几英尺处停下来拍照留念。
“我们需要了解他们如何设定生产标准，了解他们是否遵守美国劳动法，了解外国投资带来的影响，这样我们才能制定立法来解决这个问题。”卡纳告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“我对他们不配合感到失望，因为这根本不是什么‘刁难’问题。立法者需要这些信息才能解决问题。”他说。
“每个人都应该希望拥有能保障美国国家安全和美国标准的好工作。”卡纳总结道。
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‘Expect deaths in that plant’: Former employees describe hazardous conditions at Chinese-owned Ohio plant
Rep Ro Khanna convened a roundtable after the Chinese glass manufacturer refused to comply with a Congressional inquiry
October 9, 2026 9:42am EDT / Fox News
Former employees of Fuyao Glass America detail their ‘horrible’ experience working in the company’s Ohio plant during a roundtable discussion with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., in Dayton, Ohio, on Oct. 6, 2026.
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A Chinese glass manufacturer’s decision not to comply with a congressional oversight inquiry prompted Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., to convene a revealing roundtable with the plant’s former workers, where they described a series of hazardous work conditions and fears for their safety.
Khanna, the ranking member on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), first reached out to Fuyao Glass America and its Chinese parent company Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd. in July, requesting documents detailing the company’s business and labor practices.
Fuyao quickly drew the attention of Americans in the Rust Belt and beyond when it became the subject of the 2019 Netflix documentary “American Factory,” which chronicled its takeover of a former General Motors plant outside of Dayton, Ohio.
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The company has since been mired in scandals ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for workplace safety violations to the 2018 death of factory worker Ricky Patterson.
In a subsequent October letter to Fuyao leadership, Khanna decried the company’s refusal to dialogue, condemning them for only sending one single letter in response to his numerous inquiries. Fuyao’s Sept. 23 response, Khanna wrote in his Oct. 1 letter to the company, “answers virtually none of the Committee’s questions in a material way and fails to include any document submissions.”
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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., holds a roundtable discussion for union workers in Dayton, Ohio, on Tuesday Oct. 6, 2026.(Robert McGreevy/Fox News)
Despite Fuyao’s silence, Khanna made the journey to Western Ohio, an area of the country decimated by a loss of manufacturing jobs in recent decades.
Khanna convened a roundtable discussion on Tuesday involving former Fuyao employees and current union leaders at the Industrial Division of the Communications Workers of America (IUE-CWA) headquarters in Dayton, Ohio.
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During the discussion, former Fuyao workers described unbearable heat, an inability to communicate with their Chinese supervisors and apparent labor violations involving their Chinese counterparts, among other grievances.
“The heat in there is unbearable. They don’t care,” Tiffany Moore, who worked at Fuyao for three years, told the group.
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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., holds a roundtable discussion for union workers in Dayton, Ohio, on Tuesday Oct. 6, 2026.(Robert McGreevy/Fox News)
“There’s the language barrier. They can’t communicate with you. When you try to communicate with them, they’ll send someone else to you. Maybe one of them speaks English,” Moore continued.
Like many of the former Fuyao employees at the table, Moore now works at Duramax, a General Motors-owned engine manufacturer, where she says she is much happier. But to even apply for the position she had to employ clandestine measures to avoid retaliation from her Fuyao bosses.
“You can’t put your two weeks in because if you put your two weeks, they’ll get rid of you before your two weeks come up for any reason. They’ll tell you they don’t have to have a reason to get rid of you just so that they can fill your position. So when I left there, I had to actually sneak out, do my orientation at DMAX. And then call them and tell them that I wasn’t coming back and for them to release my 401k,” Moore said.
Demetria Hodges, another worker who fled Fuyao for Duramax, recounted the time a Chinese forklift driver, who she believed to be unlicensed, struck her with the machine and faced no accountability.
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“It was on camera, they have cameras in there, and they acted like they didn’t know who the forklift driver was,” she told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. “So when I tried to pursue a lawsuit and my workman’s comp, they pretended like they didn’t know who the person was.”
Demetria Hodges and Tiffany Moore discuss their time working for Fuyao Glass America during a roundtable discussion for union workers in Dayton, Ohio, on Tuesday Oct. 6, 2026.(Robert McGreevy/Fox News)
While the American workers described abysmal conditions for themselves, they said the Chinese workers were treated even worse.
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“They were treated horrible,” Moore told the group. “They weren’t allowed to take anything from us. They weren’t really allowed to communicate with us. They weren’t allowed to mix with us.”
Moore, Hodges and others said the Chinese workers were almost always the ones chosen for promotions because Fuyao could pay them less. They also said the company was constantly busing in new workers from elsewhere.
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“They used to rotate them out every couple months. Like they will go to New York and get a bus for or a van full of people and bring them down here. And they work for a certain amount of months, and then they rotate and send them back,” Hodges said.
Photo of Fuyao Glass America’s plant in Moraine, Ohio, taken on Oct. 6, 2026.(Robert McGreevy/Fox News)
When Hodges explained that workers were still forced to come to work the day after part of the factory caught fire, Khanna asked her if the workers were undocumented.
“I believe that’s why they accepted it because they were undocumented,” Hodges said.
Darrell Jones, another former Fuyao employee, told Khanna he felt the workers needed a union backing them, a point which quickly drew heated commentary from the group.
“They wouldn’t let a union come in there,” Moore chimed in. “You couldn’t even speak of a union being in there.”
“Or you could lose your job,” Hodges added.
Jones went on to explain that Fuyao threatened employees, telling them the company would take away their health insurance if they unionized. Hodges then added that the company offered employees a one-time pay bump of $2 an hour if they voted no on a planned unionization referendum.
“They said if we ever get a union there, he was going to shut it down,” Jones recalled a supervisor telling him.
Former Fuyao employee Darrell Jones speaks during an Oct. 6, 2026 roundtable in Dayton, Ohio.(Robert McGreevy/Fox News)
Jones also recalled the circumstances that led up to the tragic 2018 death of 57-year-old Fuyao factory worker Ricky Patterson.
“When that guy got smashed by that glass, we had to work that day,” Jones recounted.
“He was a little shaky because he had just lost his mom. He was trying load up to glass. He cut one end of it. And then he was supposed to put the forklift in front of it, but he didn’t put the forklift in front of it. When he cut that first side, the other side was loose,” Jones said.
“Crushed him,” he concluded.
OSHA fined Fuyao $7,000 in an informal settlement for a safety violation that led to Patterson’s death.
“There’s a guy used to work there, he passed away, he used to tell me all the time, he said he told you guys that ‘you ought to be able to expect deaths in that plant,’” Sam Sanders, the president of IUE-CWA’s local Dayton chapter told the group.
“He said what?” someone asked.
“Expect deaths in that plant,” Sanders reiterated.
Sam Sanders, president of IUE-CWA Local 84775, listens to Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., speak during a roundtable discussion in Dayton, Ohio, on Oct. 6, 2026.(Robert McGreevy/Fox News)
Khanna told the group he thought America needed new standards for foreign businesses purchasing or building factories in the U.S., a point he reiterated during an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital.
“We can welcome foreign investment in the United States of America, we should if they want to open factories, but they have to play by our rules. They have to do things, not like they do in foreign countries, but like they do in America,” Khanna told Fox News Digital.
“That means having safety standards. That means safety standards that are enforced. That means labor neutrality, so you can’t have anti-union campaigns. That means complying with anti-discrimination laws based on gender and race. That means having communication where workers have a voice, that you can treat workers is dispensable,” he continued.
The Silicon Valley congressman went on to explain that he hoped to be able to craft legislation that would reform the current process that allows foreign companies to purchase U.S. factories without much oversight. He also argued that American manufacturing needs a boost from the U.S. government.
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., outside of Fuyao Glass America’s Moraine, Ohio, plant on Oct. 6, 2026.(Robert McGreevy/Fox News)
“We need an industrial development bank in the United States that invests in places like Dayton, Ohio, to build new factories, to support manufacturers who are making things which we’re currently importing. Why are we just relying on foreign investment?” he asked.
After not being granted an oversight look into the Fuyao factory itself, Khanna still wanted to get a look at the plant from outside, stopping to pose for a picture just a few feet off of company property.
“We need to understand how they’re setting standards. We need to understand how they are complying with American labor law. We need to understand what the impact of foreign investment is so that we can craft legislation to address the issue,” Khanna told Fox News Digital.
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., poses outside of Fuyao Glass America’s Moraine, Ohio, factory on Oct. 6, 2026.(Robert McGreevy/Fox News)
“I’m disappointed they aren’t complying because it’s not in any way a gotcha issue. Legislators need this information to be able to address the issue,” he said.
“Everyone should want good jobs where American national security is protected, and American standards are protected,” Khanna concluded.
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Fuyao Glass America and Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co. did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.