As a factory dog who is opening a factory, I can't help but sigh after watching the film.
For a factory, the financial result is the pursuit of profitability, but this requires a clear physical result: delivering products to customers on time and with quality.
Therefore, as a qualified boss, Cao Dewang clearly expressed his concerns
In his view, the trade union issue will directly cause his production line to fail, and it will also cause a slow loss. As a result, there is nothing to worry about. That state legislator said something like this at the celebration.
How did Lao Cao react?
Lao Cao gave the clearest reply and directly showed his cards
It can be seen in the movie that the management, including the translator, was surprised and under great psychological pressure after hearing such words.
Since then, although the film is interspersed with employees' running-in and technical improvement, the union thing is like a ghost, hovering over the entire factory. The initial common expectation gradually turned into a struggle between the company and its employees, and everyone who moved the bricks began to become restless and uneasy. The scenes of sweatshops and inefficient fishing are interspersed, and every failure will put a lot of pressure on the people involved.
When the American worker visited the Chinese factory, he started a joke. It's a pity that the Chinese worker really didn't have the energy to pick up on him.
Since then, the situation of the trade union has intensified, and the combination of internal employees and external trade unions has begun to exert more and more pressure on the enterprise.
In fact, I don’t think the earliest management took seriously Cao Dewang’s statement that the labor union would close the factory. He made it into a situation where he pretended to stand against the United States from the boss’s point of view. Considering it from a cultural point of view, it also claims to be cutting off the head of that congressman with scissors.
But in actual operation, there is no way to do it. It is estimated that he is using the workers to force Cao Dewang to "come to the countryside and follow the customs". Anyway, you have said similar things.
Under this buddy's governance, things in the trade union are getting worse and worse. So Lao Cao felt that this buddy couldn't solve the problem, so he made a decisive decision: change people
Liu Daochuan is a Chinese immigrant who is very familiar with the United States.
Pure white or pure yellow is not easy to use. Liu, who is cross-cultural, is the best candidate. Later things really went in this direction. The method used is not a conspiracy. One by one, the employees are divided, and real money is given to employees who are willing to work hard, and employees who are willing to work hard. Successfully resolved the trade union crisis.
Boss Cao has drawn a bottom line from the very beginning, and this bottom line has affected the employees to some extent, so that at the final vote, 60% of the workers refused the union to enter the factory.
Watching movies, it is easy to put the enterprise and the employee on the opposite side. In fact, if you think about it carefully, a win-win is a win for both the company and its employees.
I opened a factory myself, and I have also encountered similar things: In June this year, we were in a peak delivery period, with more than 3 million deliveries per month. This is a very big challenge for polishing, and we often have to work overtime. At this time, there was a person in our polishing team, and with his fellow villagers, about seven or eight people said that they would quit the job collectively.
The reason is the housing subsidy, because when we opened the factory in Ninghe, we had a little accommodation subsidy for those who came from the old factory in Sanhe. In fact, the amount is not much, and local houses are cheap. But we did not recruit local employees. This group of employees who are leaving is not local, but they have been working locally, and there is no accommodation subsidy when they are recruited.
The person who took the lead in resigning collectively, without waiting for the company's explanation and consideration, left a sentence and took the person away.
The factory manager was stupid, and I was also a little confused. How to do it? How to deal with it?
On the one hand, we keep in touch with employees to understand the situation, and on the other hand, we take emergency situations and call other workers on the field. It was only later that the situation became clear, and many employees were coerced, that is, not their original intention. After diligent communication, we invited back the employees who wanted to come back, and those who took the lead in resigning also wanted to come back, so we did not accept them.
It is unacceptable for us to disregard the company and threaten the factory.
In American factories, workers pin all their hopes of protecting themselves on unions. For some, unions are the culprit in bringing down the U.S. auto industry. For others, only unions can protect themselves.
Without trade unions in our country, can workers have no way to protect themselves?
Not at all. Now the factory, safety supervisors and firefighters often come and ask to organize physical examinations and investigate potential safety hazards. If something goes wrong with the workers, the current factory cannot be freed from responsibility anyway.
For example, a worker in our Nantong factory fell over while riding an electric bike when he got home from get off work. The worker has only been at the factory for a week, and the insurance has not yet taken effect.
We provided him with a dormitory, and the workers didn't say hello to the company when they came home, but the labor department tends to the weak.
Knowing the law clearly, if there is an accident commuting to and from get off work, it cannot be defined as a work-related injury without third-party liability, not to mention that this location is not the only way to commute to get off work, from the factory to the dormitory.
However, the identification issued by the transportation department is an undetermined reason, and the labor arbitration department also favors employees.
For the government, employees are the weak and enterprises are the strong. Is the business really strong?
Therefore, seeing that in American factories, workers are struggling to form unions, probably because if there is no union, workers would have to spend a lot of legal fees to sue the factory. In China, some lawyers are rushing to help the workers do things. The national conditions are really different.
I admire the director for being faithful to the duty of a documentary, unabashedly recording the true state of every worker from the boss, management, workshop director to each worker.
But what I want to say is that in most cases, workers and factories have the same interests in the general direction, and it is good to work together to develop.
As for the replacement of labor with equipment at the end of the movie, this matter is not just starting now. As long as this is possible, as the person who opened the factory, I am willing to spend money and time to replace labor. Because, the equipment is stable, reliable and accurate, and maybe it will be more intelligent in the future.
Why is that person going? I'm not worried, because it's not easy for us to find workers now. It's cool to be a Didi driver to deliver a takeaway. The factory is no longer as attractive as it used to be.
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