The US factory is based on the investment and establishment of a factory by China's Fuyao Company in Ohio, USA, and the main line is the struggle between some workers of Fuyao Company in the United States to vote for the establishment of a union and Fuyao executives against the establishment of a labor union. On the surface, it shows the Sino-US factory. The cultural differences between management and workers actually imply the different levels of awakening of workers in the two countries, and the different relationships between labor, capital, and countries in the two countries.
What impresses me most is that in China, Fuyao is very willing to cooperate with the labor union. The chairman of the labor union is Cao Dewang's brother-in-law. However, in the United States, it is very afraid and hates the establishment of labor unions by American workers. What's the difference?
The Chinese labor union and Fuyao have joined forces to ensure the obedience of workers in the production process, and to ensure that they accept low wages, overtime and overtime work obediently; while the American labor unions should stand on the workers' point of view and speak out for workers, demanding higher wages, Ensure a safe working environment, but some workers complain that the American labor union is also raising lazy people and protecting those lazy and slippery workers. There is a sharp contrast between the two, there is a feeling that when the fake is real, the real is also fake, and the real is fake when it is fake.
Chinese capital uses nationalism, collectivism, and party organizations (trade unions and party branches) to create the identity of workers in an all-round way. On the one hand, it has indeed weakened workers' awareness of resistance, but on the other hand, in the globalization of production, through very "competitive" labor costs, it has firmly occupied the middle and low-end positions in the global industrial chain, which has promoted China's Capital accumulation has created a large number of low-income jobs in the country.
It does appear that China has taken away a large number of manufacturing jobs in the United States as a result. But the race to the bottom between Chinese workers and American workers for jobs is just an appearance. Behind it, multinational capital searches the world for the cheapest labor in search of profit.
This is not enough, it is best to continuously innovate technology to replace these people who can breathe and have feelings, and replace them with machines that will never resist. This is the final choice of Fuyao in the United States, and also the final choice of all capital.
Thinking about the future of artificial intelligence, how many workers will lose their jobs and how many families will suffer like America's rust belt, I can't imagine. Some people say that artificial intelligence can create new industries and new jobs, but from the perspective of American history, it is very difficult for a worker in the rust belt of General Motors to become an engineer in Silicon Valley. These workers eliminated by the technological revolution are eventually replaced by a large number of low-end service industries. absorbed. What about us? How can we better deal with this impending wave of unemployment, and can we support people who are left behind by technological innovation?
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