In the documentary "American Factory", Fuyao Group's branch in Ohio is a Chinese company in the United States, and because of this, Fuyao Group employs both Chinese and American workers. The concept of work inevitably clashes and collides.
As a country that was founded more than 200 years ago, the United States is also a country composed of immigrants. Today, like the ancestors who came to this continent, they advocate freedom and human rights. After hundreds of years of struggle and resistance, they also It did.
Compared with other countries, the United States today is more open and casual. For example, as said in the movie, if you walk on the street and see a person in front of you wearing big pants and slippers, he must be an American people;
It is also mentioned in the movie that it’s okay for Americans to joke about their own president on social networking sites such as Twitter, as long as you don’t break the law.
At the ceremony, an American who worked in Fuyao directly swears at the camera because of the congressman's behavior on the stage. Every sentence of fxxk and shxt is fragrant like a cannonball. Not only did he not avoid it, but he was also included in the documentary. If you scold you, you can scold it, and the other side will post it, and it doesn't matter.
They used to work for another company that had closed down and then lost their jobs because of the collapse. The arrival of Fuyao provided them with new jobs, but the hourly wages were also reduced from 29 yuan to 12 yuan
At first, they were grateful to Fuyao for changing their predicament of being unemployed, but then their gratitude gradually faded away, and all kinds of dissatisfaction took their place.
They are dissatisfied because Fuyao's requirements are contrary to their own views. For products, Fuyao requires them to reach a certain quantity every time. They believe that quality is more important than quantity.
It is understandable to attach importance to quality, but their dissatisfaction with the upper management seems to be vented only to the camera and not reflected upwards.
They were dissatisfied with Fuyao's security measures. A worker who has worked in the previous company for 15 years has never been injured at work, but after coming to Fuyao, he was on crutches, and he decided to speak up;
These are not the only ones among them.
There are also employees who have to take a leave of absence from finger injuries. The first thing they worry about is not whether they can recover as before, but whether they will lose their jobs after they recover.
The word "union" appears much more frequently in the United States than in China. The purpose of the existence of labor unions is to help members speak out and strive for more rights and freedoms in labor.
U.S. workers who are accustomed to being sloppy are unwilling to work overtime, and their production efficiency cannot be satisfactory under the condition of two shifts a day, which is a headache for the upper management.
Not only that, because of their dissatisfaction from many aspects, they started propaganda and established trade unions to fight against the "inhumane" system of enterprises.
In contrast, Chinese workers work 12 hours a day, not because of how responsible and hard-working they are, but because of their life.
Higher and higher house prices, more and more expensive prices, they can't breathe because of the pressure of life.
They have to earn money, they have to support their family, even if they work all day, even if they only have two days off a month, even if they only go home once or twice a year to see their toddler.
They sat in the broken glass with gloves on without thinking that they might get hurt, just how to do their job well without getting fired.
When they worked overtime, they didn't think about complaining, but what kind of new shoes and clothes they could buy for their children with overtime pay of tens of yuan and hundreds of yuan.
In the movie, in the Chinese headquarters of Fuyao Group, on the production line, I did not see the workers in the United States who were joking and chatting while working, but they were all wearing earplugs and burying their heads in their own operations without saying a word. like a machine.
I am both proud and sad.
I am proud of their high work efficiency, but sad that they repeat the operation again and again in a machine-like numbness.
my country's cheap labor has always been the favorite of big companies. From the last century to today, groups of people with low education who have to work hard to survive have worked hard to earn some meager income, in order to make more money. High efficiency "stands out" from equal competitors.
When managers of American factories came to visit the headquarters in China, they saw teams of employees reporting numbers, shouting slogans, and improving team cohesion.
After returning to the United States, they began to follow suit. They called in a group of employees and ordered them to stand in a line. Even if they shouted someone’s name and clearly designated someone to stand in the first place, the following group of people still didn’t pay attention; The sentence asked whether it could be done, only silence greeted it, and in the end, this time imitating was only as hasty as Dongshi imitating frowns.
Americans are free, free, and treat work as work. Even if they have just experienced a difficult life after the strike, they still only work for work. Work is only a part of life. Whenever there is something that violates their rights, they will fight for it. To speak up, to resist.
Chinese people are conservative, shy, and treat work like a life-saving straw. In their eyes, work is not just work, but work has become their life. No matter overtime or work-related injuries, the first thing that comes to mind is not their physical ability. No support, but whether there is overtime pay and insurance?
When China's leadership that advocates efficiency and work first meets American workers who advocate human rights and freedom, American factories are created. Rather than calling them American factories in the United States, I prefer a sentence like the words of Fuyao boss
"Do as the Romans do"
Recruit American workers, take care of the freedom of American workers and respect their rights.
Seeing more and more robotic arms at the end of the movie, and listening to the leadership's plans for the next layoff, I realized that this is not a struggle between Chinese workers and American workers, even if it used to be, but it will eventually evolve into adults The struggle of class ensembles against the imminent artificial intelligence.
There may have been some conflicts and confrontations, but in the face of the upcoming artificial intelligence, they are still one.
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