日產汽車製造廠週末需要開工

Recently the Asahi News reported the following:

自動車メーカーの「土日操業」が２日始まった。電力不足の恐れがある平日の操業を減らすためだ。影響は部品メーカーも含め、８０万人以上の従業員に及ぶ。電機メーカーなども土日出勤を始め、この夏の生活が大きく変わる。
　日産自動車は２日、小型車をつくる追浜工場（神奈川県横須賀市）を報道陣に公開した。建屋ではいつも通りに従業員が生産ラインに沿って作業し、車が出来上がっていく。生産担当者は「工場の中は平日と変わらない。曜日の感覚がなくなるかも」。工場周辺では部品を運ぶ大型トラックが行き交った。
　日産は休日振り替えに加えて、政府が１日発動した電力使用制限令に対応するため、東京電力管内でピーク時の１５％節電も実施。追浜工場でも、２日からさっそく勤務時間を変えて、電力使用が多い午後３～５時は生産ラインを止めた。
(試譯文)
On the 2nd, auto manufactures had started "Working on weekend". The purpose was to reduce the operation on weekdays for fear of the electricity shortage. It also included the effect came from the parts supplier, and involved 800,000 or more employees. The implementation of Working on Weekend by the manufacturer of electric appliances etc had greatly changed the daily life in this summer.

On the 2nd Nissan Motor Co. disclosed to reporters publicly at the Oppama factory (Kanagawa Prefecture Yokosuka City) that made compact cars. The employee in the building always worked according to the production line, and completed the cars. One production personnel said ｢The factory is the same compared to ordinary weekdays. Has the sense on what day of the week been lost?｣｡The heavy-duty truck that carried parts came and went around the factory.
In addition to holiday transfer, Nissan in order to correspond to the electric power usage limitation ordered by the government on the 1st, had to execute a 15% power saving during the peak time in the Tokyo Electric Power Company controlling area. At the Oppama factory working hours were immediately changed on the 2nd, and between 3 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon when a lot of electric power was used the production line was stopped.


It seems that the new method to share the use of electricity has caused some inconvenience to the Japanese car factory employees.